I got to meet at lot of Best Delegate fans at WAMUNC!
Blogging the Washington Area Model United Nations Conference (WAMUNC) is always a little different since we’ve spoken at Opening Ceremonies in the past two years. Here’s my speech from this year. Speaking enabled me to meet a lot more fans at the conference, particularly those from New Jersey. But of course, WAMUNC isn’t about my experience. It’s about the delegates learning and having fun in committee, and we have the liveblog of the conference below to show you what that looks like!
Best Delegate always enjoys visiting the Washington Area Model United Nations Conference (WAMUNC) because they get our mission and allow us to share our thoughts and experiences. Last year, Ryan Villanueva got to deliver a speech about how Model UN never ceases to amaze him at WAMUNC, and this year I got to speak in front of the 1,100 delegates in attendance about how I applied a “Learn. Live. Lead.” minset to Model UN and to life. The speech is in fact a remix of Why I Left My Job for Model UN, Too and the UNA-USA Global Classrooms motto of “Learn. Live. Lead” which is something that has had a profound impact on the Best Delegate team as well as WAMUNC Secretary-General and fellow Global Classrooms staffer Bryce Jarvis.
Columbia CMUNCE and its Peter Pan committee were among our favorite conferences and committees to liveblog last year
Best Delegate is ready for the new season to start! We’ll be launching our tour schedule on Monday — check back to see which conferences we’ll be liveblogging this year!
In the meantime, here’s a recap from our tour last year. These were just personal favorite moments from our weekends on the road and we thought we’d share them for fun. We picked out our favorite conferences to liveblog, favorite committees, favorite opening ceremonies, favorite closing ceremonies, and favorite delegate to liveblog for both the high school and college circuits. Find out which ones made the lists below!
George Washington’s WAMUNC conference — and Best Delegate‘s Ryan Villanueva — got the spotlight this weekend in DC. We have recaps from WAMUNC as well as Florida High Schools’ FHSMUN, Michigan State’s MSUMUN, and the MUNterrey Prepas conference in Mexico for you below.
This upcoming weekend will be packed with conferences — there are a total of 14 conferences including nine in the United States alone — making this one of the Top 10 Weekends. The Best Delegate team will be covering Seton Hall’s SHUMUN — where Ryan Villanueva is scheduled to speak at opening ceremonies — and splitting time between three college conferences: West Point’s WPSC, Mt. Holyoke’s FCMUN, and New York University’s NYUMUNC. We have conference previews below.
Also, we have been running two series of MUN Standings to answer the question “what are the best Model UN teams?” The Best High School Model UN Teams in America standings came out last week — check out the Overview, Methodology, and Top 16-25 — and the Top 11-15 will be released later today! The Best College Model UN Teams standings also came out last week — you can read the Overview, Methodologies, and Top 16-25 — and the Top 11-15 will be released on Tuesday.
Conference Recaps
Washington Area Model United Nations Conference (WAMUNC)
Best Delegate liveblogged WAMUNC this past weekend. Check out all the action below!
Check out my interview below with WAMUNC Secretary-General Kelsey King! In the video, we talk about: What it was like to do Model UN at an all-girls school, How WAMUNC makes the most of Washington, DC’s resources to teach students about international affairs And why Model UN was the reason Kelsey decided to attend George Washington [...]
WAMUNC features an ambitious 6-committee joint crisis simulation on mid-19th century politics called “The Age of Imperialism.” Students have taken on the roles of leaders from the United Kingdom, Russia, Prussia, Austria, France, and the Ottoman Empire. It’s been cool to see these students take what they’ve learned about 19th century history and then engage [...]
We have some exciting news! Best Delegate will be releasing two MUN Standings on this week: the Top High School MUN Teams in America and the Top College MUN Teams. In addition, we will now be including all conferences from around the world in our weekly conference previews and recaps every Monday. This week’s highlights include [...]
