500 Delegates Attend First RHSMUN Conference Held in San Francisco

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)