500 Delegates Attend First RHSMUN Conference Held in San Francisco

by Ryan on December 5, 2011

A delegate from Mira Costa High School describes his caucus bloc’s plan for delivering humanitarian aid to refugees around the world by leveraging Coca-Cola’s distribution network.

: Albany High School represented Bangladesh

: Indonesia and Portugal (Mission Viejo High School) with Jamaica and Sierra Leone (Colegio Hebrero Tarbut) in SOCHUM

: Chile (Lynbrook High School) and China (Cerritos High School) in SOCHUM

: RHSMUN was the first Model UN conference for these delegates from Sugar Bowl Academy, a school for competitive skiers, representing South Africa and Uganda

: Jordan and South Korea (Gunn High School) in SOCHUM

: Iraq (Cerritos), Cambodia (Huntington), and Indonesia (Mission Viejo) with Cote D’Ivoire and Mexico (Palos Verdes Peninsula) in DISEC

: Palos Verdes Peninsula represented Mexico, Italy, Cote D’Ivoire, and Kuwait

: Bob Timberlake of Mira Costa shows off some Christmas swag as Jason Watanabe of Cerritos looks on

: Mission Viejo High School represented Russia, Indonesia, and Portugal

: Delegates in the G20 discuss in a dimly-lit room. They were awakened at 2 in the morning to address a midnight crisis on the nationalization of micro-finance institutions in Bangladesh.

: Delegates in the Security Council caucus out in the hall

: Resolution sponsors address the committee in SPECPOL

: Delegates in the Security Council

: Sami Safiullah (Vanderbilt University) and Ann Yang (Colorado College) chaired the Security Council

: Delegates in the UNEP meet during unmoderated caucus

: The Group of 20 (G20) Committee

: The G20 held a press conference about the situation in Bangladesh

: Advisors were invited to the conference, and secretariat posed as reporters to ask delegates questions

: Devon Tivona (University of Colorado, Boulder) and Simone Leonard (Boston University) chaired the G-20 Summit

: Bonnie Pham (Williams), Anne Tu (UC Davis), and Shruti Shantharam (UC Irvine) in SOCHUM

: Fiona Truong (UC Berkeley), William Chuang (American), and Hannah Olliff (Georgia Tech) in UNEP

: RHSMUN 2010 SecGen Aaron Bothner (University of Colorado, Boulder) and NHSMUN 2011 SecGen Max Ross (Dartmouth) show off the RHSMUN T-shirt, which featured elements of the California state flag. This was RHSMUN’s inaugural year in San Francisco after relocating from Salt Lake City.

: The RHSMUN staff gathers in the war room for the midnight crisis

: The RHSMUN leadership team stands at the back of the dimly-lit audio-visual room as delegates watch crisis updates on video

: The RHSMUN 2011 Leadership Team: Under-SecGen Kelsey Price (University of Utah), Chief of External Relations Dan Chou (UC San Diego), Director-General Caroline Corley (Columbia), SecGen Molly Williams (Mt. Holyoke), Conference Director Steven Sorenson (Florida Atlantic University), Under-SecGen Jillian Petrie (Boston University), and Chief of Staff Nicole Tschetter (University of Colorado, Boulder)