Every member of the Columbia Falls High School Model United Nations team picked up at least one award over the weekend as the team participated in the 55th annual Model UN Conference on the campus of the University of Montana in Missoula.

Columbia Falls went up against hundreds of students from more than a dozen schools throughout Montana and Idaho, where students were placed on one of five committees: International Organization for Migration, General Assembly First Committee (security issues), General Assembly Second Committee (economic and financial), General Assembly Third Committee (social, cultural, and humanitarian), and Security Council.

Columbia Falls students represented Guatemala, Argentina, Poland and Malaysia.

At Model UN conferences, students participate in simulations of United Nations sessions, debating, negotiating, caucusing, drafting, and voting on resolutions that address world problems.

There are three categories of awards: honorable (top 20 percent), distinguished (top 10 percent), and outstanding (top 5 percent).

The following Columbia Falls students won awards:

Outstanding County Award: Poland (Sam Lovering, Tre Finley, Calie Jo Johnson, Aiden Judge, Eddie Chishom)

Distinguished Country Award: Guatemala (Noah Golan, Reed Sandstrom, Emma Stephens)

Honorable Country Award: Argentina (Sheridan Skerritt, Raphe Salmon, Julia Martin)

Honorable Country Award: Malaysia (Paeden Matson, Brayden Crawford, Finley Schumacher Sundberg)

GA1 Honorable Delegates: Aiden Judge, Noah Golan

GA2 Distinguished Delegate: Tre Finley

GA 2 Honorable Delegate: Julia Martin

GA 3 Honorable Delegate: Calie Jo Johnson

Security Council Honorable Delegate: Sam Lovering

UNICEF Distinguished Delegates: Emma Cooley, Eddie Chisholm

UNICEF Honorable Delegate: Paeden Matson

Position Paper – Distinguished: Julia Martin, Calie Joe Johnson

Top 25 seniors: Noah Golan, Reed Sandstrom

Distinguished School: Columbia Falls