WorldMUN Vancouver is liveblogged by Larissa Taciuk, a Vancouver native who did MUN at McGill University and staffed at UNA-USA MUN with us
The WorldMUN Spirit still lives on even with WorldMUN 2012 having been concluded for over a week. Especially due to the fact that the conference ended with such a bang! Immediately after Closing Ceremonies, delegates, staff, and all attendees were ushered just outside of the Vancouver Convention Centre to witness the Olympic Flame being lit. It was a fitting end to the conference, and at the risk of being too clichéd, the symbolism of the lighting of a flame seemed to mirror the mood of the end of the conference. The friendships, the lessons, the WorldMUN Spirit, the entire experience lives on in all of those who participated in Vancouver WorldMUN 2012.
WorldMUN Vancouver is liveblogged by Larissa Taciuk, a Vancouver native who did MUN at McGill University and staffed at UNA-USA MUN with us
Throughout the past week, I heard a lot about the “WorldMUN spirit” – an ephemeral aura that emanates from delegates and pervades the WorldMUN experience. Having (unfortunately) never been a WorldMUN delegate myself, I have not had the opportunity to experience this spirit. After spending this past week in the new and beautiful Vancouver Convention Center though, surrounded by amazing people from all around the world, I think that I’ve truly gained a sense of this WorldMUN spirit.
WorldMUN Vancouver is liveblogged by Larissa Taciuk, a Vancouver native who did MUN at McGill University and staffed at UNA-USA MUN with us
WorldMUN Vancouver
As the city that recently hosted the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, Vancouverites like myself are no stranger to welcoming visitors from around the world into our beautiful city. But I’m willing to bet that never before has the city seen such engaged, idealistic, and well-dressed young men and women descend upon it as during the 21st annual World Model United Nations Vancouver 2012 Conference! From March 11-15, delegates will share five days (and nights, reminded Secretary-General Kathleen Tang) debating, writing resolutions, wearing suits, maybe a little partying, and perhaps most importantly, meeting awesome, driven, like-minded people from around the world.
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.
This post was provided by Parth Shingala, JPSMUN Under Secretary-General Class of ’13. J.P. Stevens MUN won Best Large Delegation at the 2012 Harvard MUN conference. Coming from the suburbs of Edison, NJ, JP Stevens High School does not have a typical Model UN program by any means. The club meets once a week after [...]
Between massive GA’s, marathon committee sessions, multiple multi-page resolutions, HMUN is a particularly intense conference. Delegates take the conference very seriously, many of them doing research and preparing months in advance, seeing HMUN as their main Model UN event for the year. A quarter of the conference’s delegates come from outside the United States and [...]
Best Delegate will be hitting the road again this year! We’ll be traveling around the country to teach a series of student workshops and free teacher workshops. And of course, we’ll also be visiting conferences to liveblog again and interview you guys about all the fun you’re having! We had an amazing time meeting everyone [...]
Which college Model UN teams are the best in the world? We saw many benefits to answering this question and devised a methodology to create a set of rankings — we released our first set of rankings based on results up to March 21, 2011. We then took Best Delegate readers’ feedback on the rankings and [...]
The Best Delegate team has been visiting different Model UN conferences around the country all year and we’ve noticed that two different groups of schools attend college Model UN conferences. One group mostly attends the conferences hosted by U.Penn, Georgetown, Yale, U.Chicago, and Berkeley, and this group views the Harvard National MUN Conference (HNMUN) as [...]
The WorldMUN 2012 Vancouver Bid Committee announced on their Facebook page today that they have won the rights to host the 2012 WorldMUN Conference. WorldMUN is a college conference jointly hosted every spring by Harvard University and a local college outside the United States. Here is their announcement: ANNOUNCEMENT: VANCOUVER WINS RIGHTS TO HOST THE [...]
