Model UN’s fifth annual high school conference

The Model United Nations Club is hosting its fifth annual high school conference this Friday, Nov. 2 . The conference is organized for high school students from the surrounding areas, from schools as close as Trumbull to as far as New York City. This year, 200 hundred high school students are attending to debate a variety of topics and issues.

The Model UN team has been working diligently on the conference since last spring, brainstorming ideas and creating stimulating topics for debate.

There are eight committees in total in Fairfield’s Model UN that each consist of a chair and a co-chair. The committees include the World Bank, the Organization of American States, The Peacebuilding Commission, the United Nations Human Rights Council, the European Union, and the Russian, Chinese, and United States Cabinets, which are debating a futuristic topic of World War III. Each committee prepares interesting situations and crises to keep the high school delegates excited and interested in the topic at hand.’
The Model UN high school conference is a full day event in which high school students get the chance to debate and meet other students. Furthermore, it is a way to get Fairfield’s name known to prospective or interested high school students.

It is also a learning experience for both the high school students and the Model UN members because it is a way to learn how the United Nations works and become familiar with parliamentary procedures.

‘This year’s FUMUN High School Conference is a great chance for high school students to be introduced to real world simulations of international affair,’ said FUMUN Member Nazar Kamenchenko ’10. ‘The benefit of this conference is in that it provides for students a solid basis and a stepping block for later conferences to come.’ The conference is also fun for us, chairs and co-chairs, to interact with high school students and to get them excited about what we enjoy doing – being part of and participating in Model UN.’

Each year is a learning experience for the Model UN club. Hopefully in the years to come this conference will be a force to be reckoned with.