St. Paul Central Students to Go to Washington, D.C. for WorldQuest Competition in April

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The Minnesota International Center (MIC) is sending a team from St. Paul Central High School, all expenses paid, to represent Minnesota at the National Academic WorldQuest Competition, sponsored by the World Affairs Councils of America (WACA), in Washington, D.C. on April 27, 2013. From left to right in the photo are the Consul General of Canada for the upper Midwest Jamshed Merchant, Bhavanna Suvarna, Linnea Peterson, Haroun Khalid, Elsa Mundt, Ethan Cherin (Central teacher and team coach), and Carol Ingebretson Byrne, president of the Minnesota International Center. The Minnesota International Center (MIC) is sending a team from St. Paul Central High School, all expenses paid, to represent Minnesota at the National Academic WorldQuest Competition, sponsored by the World Affairs Councils of America (WACA), in Washington, D.C. on April 27, 2013. From left to right in the photo are the Consul General of Canada for the upper Midwest Jamshed Merchant, Bhavanna Suvarna, Linnea Peterson, Haroun Khalid, Elsa Mundt, Ethan Cherin (Central teacher and team coach), and Carol Ingebretson Byrne, president of the Minnesota International Center.

The Minnesota International Center (MIC) is sending a team from St. Paul Central High School, all expenses paid, to represent Minnesota at the National Academic WorldQuest Competition, sponsored by the World Affairs Councils of America (WACA), in Washington, D.C. on April 27, 2013.

Central’s team comprising Haroun Khalid, Elsa Mundt, Linnea Peterson and Bhavana Suvarna was the winner of the local Academic WorldQuest Competition, sponsored by MIC and held at the General Mills campus on Wednesday, February 6. 17 teams from metro area high schools competed to answer questions on U.S. Economic Competitiveness; U.S. Education: Competing Globally; U.S. Energy Policy; the Middle East; Afghanistan/Pakistan; China; U.N. Millennium Goals: Environmental Sustainability; Geography; Current Events and the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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