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Ghana�s delegation to this year�s Model United Nations Conference for Middle and High Schools in the U.S won the prestigious Best Delegation Award for Excellence, Organisation and Comportment. Individual members of the delegation also won separate honours at the just ended Global Classrooms Model UN conference held at the US State Department in Washington DC. UNICEF's Best Delegation award was won by Chealsea Bagonluri (SAPs School) and Stephen Agbodza (LIFE International School) while Ama Serwaa Markin and Maame Aba Amponsah-Arhin from Tema Parents School won Honourable Mention. Ghana also won Honourable Mentions at a similar conference held at the UN Headquarters in New York. These awards went to Esther Agyeman-Badu (SOS Hermann Gmiener Tema), Eyram Agbe (Queensland International School), Lesia Sefa andPaulina Opoku Abankwa (SOS Herman Gmiener, Kumasi), Samuel Bartels �Mensah (Queens International) and Kenneth Anim (First star Academy) Director-General for Foreign Service and Human Resources at the US State Department, Linda Thomas-Greenfield who opened the conference expressed the hope the Model UN experience will deepen ongoing interests and engagement in Foreign and International Affairs issues among young people. Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield who has been nominated the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs by President Obama congratulated teachers and facilitators for providing platform for young people to learn to be better diplomats and leaders.