IN THE NEWS:
IN 2018, MVB has been featured in the news for the progress it has made. See the links below for some of the news items.
“This event showed that students of all ages, no matter how young, can unite to fight for a cause we all believe in.” – Ann Gbollie
Harmonia (Harmony) Peet is one of MVBs shining stars. A member of the Law & Humanities Institute, Harmony has dreams of working in the world of law and politics. If you glance atour new website,she is seen standing with Mayor de Blazio and Principal Sochet before she opened the Mayoral Town Hall Meeting back in November 2017. Harmony was elected Senior SO President this year and has led the rebirth of two school dances, including one this past weekend - the Spring Dance.
Harmony is a member of MUN1, the inaugural year of MVB's Model UN Class. This year Harmony and her partner Nile Robinson Foster won an Honorable Mention award for her work as the Eritrean ambassadors in the Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) for the "Combating Water Scarcity" meeting at the International Change the World Conference in NYC. More than 2000 students from 25 nations took part in the Conference. It was the first international-level award for MVB's Model UN Team.
Harmony is a member of our Moot Court & Mock Trial teams and was one of 14 students selected to represent New York City, MVB and the USA at the International Moot Court at the Peace Palace in The Hague. The event brought 13 countries from around the world to work with international law firms participating as coaches, judges and sponsors. The case topic focused onthree issues of war crimes and required students to participate in multiple-elimination rounds at Leiden University Law School with two international teams emerging as the finalists. Harmony's team was one of those finalists and they took second place at the competition!
Most recently, Harmony was selected as a 2018QuestBridgeCollege Prep Scholar. She is one of 3,986 students selected from a large pool of over 11,600 high school juniors around the country based on academic excellence, personal qualities, and financial need. This honor makes her a strong potential applicant for the National College Match and to be admitted to a top-tier college with a full four-year scholarship from Questbridge.
Kevin Shult
Assistant Principal of Supervision, Social Studies
Harmony is a member of MUN1, the inaugural year of MVB's Model UN Class. This year Harmony and her partner Nile Robinson Foster won an Honorable Mention award for her work as the Eritrean ambassadors in the Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) for the "Combating Water Scarcity" meeting at the International Change the World Conference in NYC. More than 2000 students from 25 nations took part in the Conference. It was the first international-level award for MVB's Model UN Team.
Harmony is a member of our Moot Court & Mock Trial teams and was one of 14 students selected to represent New York City, MVB and the USA at the International Moot Court at the Peace Palace in The Hague. The event brought 13 countries from around the world to work with international law firms participating as coaches, judges and sponsors. The case topic focused onthree issues of war crimes and required students to participate in multiple-elimination rounds at Leiden University Law School with two international teams emerging as the finalists. Harmony's team was one of those finalists and they took second place at the competition!
Most recently, Harmony was selected as a 2018QuestBridgeCollege Prep Scholar. She is one of 3,986 students selected from a large pool of over 11,600 high school juniors around the country based on academic excellence, personal qualities, and financial need. This honor makes her a strong potential applicant for the National College Match and to be admitted to a top-tier college with a full four-year scholarship from Questbridge.
Kevin Shult
Assistant Principal of Supervision, Social Studies