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Northeastern’s Model NATO team can’t be stopped

Northeastern model NATO team

A team of North­eastern stu­dents placed first at the 31st annual Inter­na­tional Model NATO Con­fer­ence in Wash­ington, D.C., ear­lier this month. Philip D’Agati, Model NATO team advisor and asso­ciate teaching pro­fessor in the Depart­ment of Polit­ical Sci­ence, attrib­uted the impres­sive per­for­mance to months of intense training.

A team of North­eastern stu­dents placed first at the 31st annual Inter­na­tional Model NATO Con­fer­ence in Wash­ington, D.C., ear­lier this month, besting more than two dozen del­e­ga­tions from higher edu­ca­tion insti­tu­tions from Bel­gium, Canada, the U.S., and the United Kingdom.

Philip D’Agati, Model NATO team advisor and asso­ciate teaching pro­fessor in the Depart­ment of Polit­ical Sci­ence, attrib­uted the impres­sive per­for­mance to months of intense training. To pre­pare for the com­pe­ti­tion, stu­dents spend sev­eral hours per week reading policy state­ments, writing mock res­o­lu­tions, and debating the issues in the university’s Model NATO class or club.

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