Model UN conference season is back! Best Delegate breaks down the Top 10 Weekends for the 2011 spring semester in chronological order. Best Delegate will also be featuring some of these conferences – check out our Tour Schedule!
Several conferences will be held at the UN: NHSMUN, NMUN, GCIMUN, and Montessori MUN (Photo credit: Loyola University of Chicago)
1. January 13-16: The season-opener takes place for the high school circuit. UBC’s UCBMUNC opens the college season a weekend earlier:
2. January 27-30: This is one of the most highly-anticipated, power-packed weekends of the season with several major conferences in the circuit:
3. February 3-6: This is perhaps the most popular weekend of the spring semester with conferences around the country:
- U. Chicago’s MUNUC
- UNA-USA’s Global Classrooms: New York City
- American’s AUMUNC
- MIT’s MITMUNC
- North Carolina’s UNCMUNC
- Houston Area MUN conference
- Florida’s GatorMUN
- Huntington Beach High School’s Surf City MUN
4. February 17-20: This is another competitive weekend in the season especially with college students competing at Harvard National for one of the national championships (the other being NMUN New York):
- Georgetown’s NAIMUN
- Duke’s DUMUNC
- UCSB’s Gaucho MUN
- Los Alamitos High School’s LAHSMUN
- Harvard’s HNMUN (College)
5. February 22-26: This is another busy weekend with conferences around the country including two college conferences:
- IDIA’s PhilMUN
- MAGEC’s Mid-American MUN
- Laguna Hills High School’s LHHSMUN
- Princeton’s PicSIM (College)
- Penn State’s PUNC (College)
6. March 3-6: Berkeley almost becomes the center of the Model UN universe as the West Coast gets the spotlight for a weekend:
- UC Berkeley’s BMUN
- UC Berkeley’s UCBMUN (College)
- Canadian High Schools’ CAHSMUN
- UNA-USA’s Global Classrooms Los Angeles
7. March 9-12: Many high school delegates will be competing for the national championship at NHSMUN, but there are several other conferences taking place this weekend too:
8. March 31 – April 3: There will be plenty of action in the Northeast and beyond after students return from spring break and get their last conferences in before exams:
- Dartmouth’s DartMUN
- Seton Hall’s SHUMUN
- Mt. Holyoke’s FCMUN
- North Carolina’s MUNCH
- UNA-USA’s Global Classrooms Houston
- Cornell’s CIAC (College)
- Western Collegiate West MUN (College)
9, April 7-10: All the action continues with a second straight packed weekend:
- UNA-USA’s GCI Middle School MUN
- UNA-USA’s Global Classrooms Tampa Bay
- Northwestern’s NUMUN
- Century High School’s WCIMUN
- UCLA’s LAMUN (College)
- MUN of the Far West MUNFW (College)
10. April 17-23: New York and Chicago split the action as the college season wraps up. The two NMUN conferences combine for one of the largest conferences in the world and serves as one of the national championships on the college circuit:
The Top 10 Weekends is not meant to be a comprehensive list of all conferences in the spring but rather to highlight notable weekends with multiple major conferences – we realize many other major conferences such as Yale’s YMUN and UNA-USA’s GCIMUN have their respective weekends mostly to themselves. Every Monday we will provide lists of conferences for that upcoming weekend. However, please leave a comment and website link below if you notice a conference taking place in one of the above weekends is missing.
Best Delegate wishes all delegates and conference staff the best as they prepare for the spring season. Let us know which conferences you’re excited about!
