{"id":24440,"date":"2024-05-22T13:24:58","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T17:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/?p=24440"},"modified":"2024-05-22T13:24:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T17:24:58","slug":"monthly-spotlight-model-un-conference-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/2024\/05\/22\/monthly-spotlight-model-un-conference-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Monthly Spotlight: 2004 Model UN Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Social Studies regularly seeks to find more ways to support student and teacher academic interests. Model United Nations (Model UN) is one of the many opportunities they&#8217;ve embraced.<\/p>\n<p>High school and middle school AACPS students have the opportunity to participate in the year-long club, which concludes the school year with a county-wide conference that simulates a United Nations summit. For more information about Model UN, click the link: <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/aacps.org\/aacps-model-united-nations\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AACPS Model UN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out highlights from the 2024 Conference at Annapolis High School:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wevideo.com\/embed\/#3457002912\" width=\"860\" height=\"485\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Louis Nesbitt, Office of Business &amp; Community Development<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conference Quotes: &#8220;Our goal moving forward is to get more students excited about international relations &#038; public speaking&#8221;&#8230; &#8220;It&#8217;s an exciting opportunity for our students to engage in discourse about current &#038; contemporary issues&#8221;&#8230; &#8220;We want our students to be world thinkers&#8221;&#8230; &#8220;It&#8217;s important to add middle school students because it gives them an opportunity grow so many skills&#8221;&#8230; &#8220;Often the youth, with their fresh perspectives, come up with solutions that some older people struggle to see&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001013,"featured_media":24446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showcase","category-aacps_story","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24440"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24447,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24440\/revisions\/24447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aacpsschools.org\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}