Tampa Prep’s Model UN Club recently attended the 21st annual GATORMUN Conference, January 19 – 21 in Gainesville, hosted by the University of Florida Model United Nations Club, and brought home FIVE awards!
GATORMUN provides a learning experience unlike any other by breaking from the traditional classroom setting to transform high school students into experts on pressing international issues. For the weekend, students become delegates in important international forums addressing complex global issues such as preventing the spread of diseases, defending human rights, and upholding justice in the international system.
We are so proud of all the students’ hard work and dedication and we commend their research, writing skills, verbal communication skills, and most of all, their interest in some of the most challenging issues facing our global society today. We are so proud of every student who participated in this conference!
Out of 901 delegates from across the State of Florida, Tampa Prep won the following high awards:
Ryan Szymanski ’27: Best Position Paper (Grenada/UN Small Island Developing States Conference)
Reed Wilson ’25 & Talia Johnsingh ’26: Best Position Paper (Estonia/UN Habitat Committee)
Elissa DiPierro ’24: Verbal Commendation (Francesca Rossi/Security and Ethics Committee on the Regulation of Emerging Technologies)
Grant Gaugush ’26: Honorable Delegate (United Arab Emirates/Nagorno-Karabakh Crisis/United Nations Security Committee)
Nick Fisher ’25: Honorable Delegate (Vladimir Voloshko/Runaway Reactor: Pripyat 1986)
Read the award-winning papers:
Meet our entire Tampa Prep Delegation comprised of 24 student-ambassadors, the LARGEST delegation in Tampa Prep history!
MUN General Assembly
Michael Webster representing the British Virgin Islands (The Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States)
Ryan Szymanski representing Grenada (The Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States)
Talia Johnsingh and Reed Wilson representing Estonia (United Nations Habitat II)
Sophia Lunsford and Zahra Sparkman representing Indonesia (Food and Agriculture Organization)
Max Karmazyn representing Australia (International Maritime Organization)
Cole Steppacher representing New Zealand (International Maritime Organization)
Logan Glowicki representing Liberia (United Nations Human Rights Council)
Luke Burden representing Cuba (United Nations Human Rights Council)
Ben Loosbrock representing Belarus (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe)
Alex Bradford representing Denmark (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe)
MUN Specialized Committees
Noah Sparkman as Steve Mills (Security and Ethics Committee on the Regulation of Emerging Technologies)
Elissa DiPierro as Francesca Rossi (Security and Ethics Committee on the Regulation of Emerging Technologies)
Gabby Maxwell representing Russia Today (Press Corps)
Nikhil Kotak representing Times of India (Press Corps)
Alice Waldron representing Brazil (UN Security Council – Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict)
Grant Gaugush representing United Arab Emirates (UN Security Council – Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict)
Max McGevna as Gary (Spongebob: Bikini Bottom Peril)
Advaith Ashok as Anchor Whitman (Spongebob: Bikini Bottom Peril)
Inaaya Firoz as Digital Marketing Strategist (The Road to the Oval Office: Winning Hearts and Votes)
Muryum Firoz as Field Organizer (The Road to the Oval Office: Winning Hearts and Votes)
MUN Crisis Committee
Nick Fisher as Vladimir Voloshko (Runaway Reactor: Pripyat 1986)
Colin Walker as Victor Brukhanov (Runaway Reactor: Pripyat 1986)
