<p>I'm starting a Model UN club at our school and I was wondering, what do you guys do at your meetings? Do you guys practice for conferences? If so, how?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>start with some novice conferences because actual experiences at conferences are the best way to practice some novice conferences are LAIMUN(mira costa), Santa Margarita, Tustin, Laguna hillsa, and Los Alamitos. Usually you want to try simulations where you who knows more about conferences should run a mock conference after school sometime. but again the best way to actually practice is to experience that's what happened to me</p>
<p>How do you run a mock conference? What happens at a mock conference?</p>
<p>Do you have the club members choose countries to represent and debate/vote on proposed bills and stuff?</p>
<p>your club members represent different countries, and you would probably run it along with a couple other people and you debate whatever issues you want some good samples can be found on any high school mun site like mission viejo mvhsmun.com another good way would be for you to try and observe a conference you shoud look into that</p>
<p>breakordeath88,</p>
<p>you run a mock conference basically the same way a regular conference would be run. the club leaders will pick chairs (maybe themselves?) who run the conference, pick the topic, assign countries to the other club members to represent, and run a simulation in a classroom or something during one day. this usually takes place after several training sessions that teach the new members all the rules and procedures of Model UN. </p>
<p>a novice conference would be helpful too. kishikawa mentioned some good ones in southern california if that's where you're located. but your delegates would probably still need to be introduced to the rules of MUN so they won't feel so lost at the novice conference. </p>
<p>as for what you do at the meetings, it depends on your club style. the club i can from held training sessions after school and held a mock conference on the weekend. that gave us more time to answer questions, etc. some clubs have also brought in guest speakers from other schools who are experienced in MUN to teach them the basics and essentials. </p>
<p>p.s. i came from a mun club program. PM or IM me if you want</p>
<p>We don't have regular meetings. We just meet for like 10 minutes a month before a conference to decide on committees, partners, rooms, and countries (if we have more than one). Then we meet a couple days before the conference to make sure we know where to meet and all. Then we go conference our asses off.</p>
<p>We just have short meetings before conferences, no practice at all.</p>
<p>My school has a massive MUN program.. we divide all of the delegates into groups of about 30 or so and have weekly meeting where "committee heads" go over resolution writing, protocal during the conference and what their committee is all about (ex. committee for sustainable development) etc. Our conference is two days-- one day for resolution writing and the second day to vote on/ discuss resolutions... the secretariat (secretary general etc...) stands at the front of the room and conducts the conference while committee heads watch over their committees. Good luck w/ everything! MUN is an awesome program if you work hard to make it organized and get a lot of people to participate. MUN guidebooks and websites can be great resources and their suprisingly easy to get by.</p>
<p>**they're...sorry grammer freak</p>
<p>AHHH just spelt grammar wrong</p>