Eight TEEN DAY fifth-period participants attended the Cornell Model United Nations Conference April 11-14 right in our own backyard. CMUNC is an annual high school model UN conference hosted by the Cornell International Affairs Society (CIAS) at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. CMUNC is a simulation of the United Nations and other international bodies, which allows students to take on the roles of diplomats from around the world.
Model UN seeks to promote awareness of the many issues facing the international community, and to give students the opportunity to engage in critical thinking about how to address those issues. Students or “delegates” must step into the shoes of the country or position they are assigned. Participants research their assigned country, write a country position paper for submission, get to know their particular role/committee, and finally, spend the weekend as a part of a simulated delegation at this international conference!
TEEN DAY delegates, from left to right:
Gina, MUN advisor; Emily, Delegate of Bolivia, Organization of American States (OAS); Naomi, Co-Delegate of Iran, United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ); Riley, Delegate of Hungary, Disarmament and International Security Committee (DISEC); Lillian, Delegate of Yemen, World Health Organization (WHO); Blake, Delegate of Philippines, United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW); Drew, Delegate of Burkina Faso, African Union; Liam, Co-Delegate of Iran, United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ); Samuel, Delegate of Iran, Economic and Financial Committee (ECOFIN).
TEEN DAY will offer Model UN again in 2019-2020, and we plan to attend CMUNC again in the spring. But this session showed us we may be ready to take on a few more conferences. We’ll keep you posted (or JOIN US next year to see for yourself)!
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