A team of eight stu­dents from St. Joseph’s Con­vent Port-of-Spain and the UN­ESCO Club co­or­di­na­tor, Mrs. Ali­cia Stephens is in Buenos Aires, Ar­genti­na rep­re­sent­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go and the Caribbean at the Twen­ty First In­ter­na­tion­al Mod­el UN­ESCO. This is a sim­u­la­tion of the Gen­er­al Con­fer­ence of UN­ESCO. Mr. Nag­il Sam­path, a teacher at St. Mary’s Col­lege, is al­so a mem­ber of the con­tin­gent as CIC hopes to par­tic­i­pate in the fu­ture.

The Mod­el UN­ESCO is be­ing or­gan­ised by In­sti­tu­to Jose Her­nan­dez and will last for four days, 4 – 7 Oc­to­ber, and each day dif­fer­ent ‘com­mis­sions’ will de­bate on top­ics as­signed. On the fi­nal day res­o­lu­tions will be passed. The pur­pose of the con­fer­ence is to build key skills in stu­dents that would be ben­e­fi­cial for life - a bet­ter sense of team­work, lead­er­ship, hon­esty and re­spect. The con­fer­ence al­so seeks to as­sist stu­dents with pub­lic speak­ing skills as stu­dents are usu­al­ly called up­on to present the in­for­ma­tion they have pre­pared.

In prepa­ra­tion for the event, the SJC stu­dents were split in­to two teams to rep­re­sent two dif­fer­ent coun­tries - Egypt and France. Three stu­dents will each make pre­sen­ta­tions un­der the three Com­mis­sions of Sci­ence, So­cial Sci­ence and Cul­ture and Ed­u­ca­tion. Team France con­sists of: Emelie John, Alyssa Cheekes and Ci­en­na Shanklin. The ‘am­bas­sador’ for the team is Shi­anne Dwar­ka, a past stu­dent of the school.

Team Egypt con­sists of: Mayah Mo­hammed, Alexan­dria Bai­ley and Xaria Beck­les. The ‘am­bas­sador’ for the team is Satya Sam­path, a past stu­dent of the school.

Res­o­lu­tions that are de­vel­oped by the stu­dents are sub­mit­ted to the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion in Ar­genti­na as well as the UN­ESCO Head Of­fice in Paris.