Student Spotlight
By Chloe McGowan
Leaving a Legacy
GHHS Model UN team earns top national awards after just four years as club
Courtesy of Caleb Evans
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n December 2018, two Grandview Heights High School freshmen – Tyler Schmied and Harvey Pierce – came to science teacher Caleb Evans to ask if he would be the adviser for their new Model United Nations Club. “I had just seen representations of it in, you know, common media,” says Schmied, who served as secretary general of the club in his senior year. “We thought that sounded really fun but also something that, like, we could take a little bit more seriously.” Evans agreed and two months later, the team was off to its first competition at the Ohio State University Model United Nations – hosted by The Ohio State
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GHHS Model UN club at NHSMUN 2022. Left to right: Cody Allen, Carter Black, Connor Hayes, Maria Ionno, Vivian Chute, Sabrina Li, Tyler Schmied, Harvey Pierce, Devin Yeager.
University’s Model UN group, Collegiate Council on World Affairs. In hindsight, Evans says, the competition may have been premature for the young team, but the group has come a long way since then. This year, competing at the National High School Model United Nations Conference (NHSMUN) in New York City for the first time, the team earned first and third place in the conference’s two team award categories. “My main thing from day one has been I want this to be student-ran,” Evans says. “They’ve done such a phenomenal job of taking this over, particularly in the last year.” Cody Allen, an incoming senior at GHHS and the under secretary general of Delegate Affairs and Crisis Team leader, says he first heard about the club as an eighth-grader when the club was in its first year. “I’ve always been interested in politics and government when I was young,” he July/August 2022 • www.trivillagemagazine.com
