MRHS Model Government Takes Home Top Honors
Marlboro High School’s Model Government team participated in a four-day government simulation with high schools across New Jersey and the tri-state area. Thirty-six students participated in Congressional and Senatorial committees, the Supreme Court, lobbying groups and current and historical cabinet “situation rooms.” For the third consecutive year, Marlboro High School’s delegation was recognized as one of the top performers with the “Best School Delegation” honor. Marlboro has now won the top honor in four out of the last five years.
The most competitive schools attending the conference have dedicated classes to prepare their students for the conference. Marlboro’s students met at 7:15 am on a weekly basis since September to practice in order to compete against these schools. In order for a school delegation to win, each delegate is evaluated based on a number of factors including but not limited to speaking and writing skills, forging diplomatic relations with others and influencing the direction and scope of discussion in a meaningful way.
In addition to the top honor for the group, Marlboro’s delegation had individual award winners including:
Outstanding Delegate in an Advanced Committee (2nd Place honor in the most competitive committee—the second highest honor of the conference):
1. Oscar Ozbay—12th Grade
2. Preanka Pillai—12th Grade
Best Delegate in Committee (highest individual honor in a regular committee—committees):
1. Nick Lugo—12th Grade
2. Cristian Fernandez—11th Grade
3. Daniel Dreizin—10th Grade
4. Matthew Friedman—9th Grade
Outstanding Delegate in Committee (2nd place individual honor in a regular committee):
1. Aditiya Prasad—12th Grade
2. Nivant Desai—11th Grade
3. Angelina Sanchez—10th Grade
4. Adam Bandler—10th Grade
Distinguished Delegate in Committee (3rd place individual honor in a regular committee):
1. Kripa Sridhar—11th Grade
Most Improved:
1. Mahadhi Balaji—11th Grade
2. DJ Mattos—12th Grade
3. Paul Cappuzzo—12th Grade (Advanced Committee)
Best Position Paper
1. Sanjay Gotur—12th Grade (Advanced Committee)
2. Kate Messinger—12th Grade
3. Allison Ringel—11th Grade
The team was made up of the following students:
Arianaz Akbarzadehgan
Geoffrey Alintoff
Kathyiani Arun
Mahadhi Balaji
Adam Bandler
Paul Cappuzzo
Justin Chen
Insha Chhabra
Ryan Corbin
Nivant Desai
Danielle Dominguez
Daniel Dreizin
Cristian Fernandez
Alexa Friedman
Matthew Friedman
Sanjay Gotur
Sanskriti Gupta
Rishab Jituri
Jessica Kipnis
Nick Lugo
Darren Mattos
Kate Messinger
Aayushi Naik
Oscar Ozbay
Jil Patel
Preanka Pillai
Aditiya Prasad
Alison Ringel
Marium Rizv
Angelina Sanchez
Nidhish Sharma
Kripa Sridhar
Rahul Trivedi
Jerry Vakshlyak
Simone Volman
Katelyn Yin