Success in Model UN helps students succeed in other parts of their lives
The Best Delegate team is proud to announce the launch of our Model UN Summer Camp at UC Irvine! The summer camp will be held from June 25-29, 2012, for students age 12-17 with any level of Model UN experience.
The camp will feature training on essential leadership skills, lectures and activities on international relations and current events, Model UN simulations including performance feedback, and tips on club-building and college admissions.
Yale University defended their Best Large Delegation award at HNMUN 2012
The Harvard National Model United Nations (HNMUN) is the largest and most competitive university-level Model UN conference in the world and serves as the collegiate championship for many of the teams in attendance. And the delegation awards went to…
Best Large Delegation: Yale University
Outstanding Large Delegation: University of Chicago
Best Small Delegation: George Washington University
Best International Delegation: Universidad Simon Bolivar
Here’s a video from Closing Ceremonies:
HNMUN did an excellent job with their Press Corps and you can find all their blog articles and photos here. We also have some liveblog photos, Closing Ceremonies video, and our awards analysis below.
Many high school readers on our website considered the North American Invitational Model United Nations (NAIMUN) to be the “high school championship” this year with over 3,000 delegates including some of the most competitive Model UN teams in the country and around the world. We did some inside analysis of how committees are developed in previous articles, and how here’s now the committees looked like. Check it out!
NAIMUN did a great job in encouraging us to get an inside look at the philosophies behind their conference. We did an analysis of their crisis development and crisis innovations and now here’s an article on chairing philosophies for the traditional UN committees. Unfortunately I didn’t have enough time to interview more chairs but at least these three interviews with US National Security Council chair Dane Shikman, World Health Organization chair Alex Bozzette, and SPECPOL chair Deven Comen provide a sample of the chairing philosophies at NAIMUN.
Please welcome the Best Delegate Spring 2012 team: Jessica Shin, Ashley Inman, Amanda Piazza, Parth Shingala, and Kelly Boehner! At Best Delegate, we look for more than just people who have won Best Delegate awards — we hire people who have taken the initiative to turn others into Best Delegates, too. All five members of [...]
Note: This article is Part 4 of a five-part featured series on NAIMUN XLIX. Learn more about the series here. This year, NAIMUN took a long, hard look at the mechanisms of chairing and crisis managing in place across the circuit and attempted to use this perspective to revolutionize the structural, technical, and thematic aspects of [...]
The London International Model United Nations (LIMUN) is Europe’s largest college conference with a record 1,300 delegates from over 130 universities from all six continents! The conference was held at Imperial College London and this year’s theme was “Shape the Future – Right Here, Right Now.” We have photos from Opening Ceremonies, committee sessions, International [...]
The Best Delegate team visited THIMUN and THIMUN Singapore earlier this year and we learned a lot from those conferences that we’ll surely share in future posts and as we speak with other teachers around the world. However, we do get questions from North American schools that are curious to attend THIMUN-affiliated conferences or are [...]
This post has been provided by Dana Lea from Southern Methodist University. Dana studied abroad in Ghana and brought her Model UN experience to a school there. The impact of Model United Nations (MUN) on the youth of the world is not to necessarily create future employees to the United Nations. Students who participate in MUN [...]
