<p>In MUN each team member is assigned a country to represent. You may be the USA or some tiny country you didn’t know existed. Then you are assigned to a council (say the security council or human rights etc.)
Each of the councils are given a topic(s) to debate/discuss and you defend the proposals made based on the views of your country. You can see where the research part comes in now. At the end of the conference awards are given (gavel awards, certificates)
,MUN was a club at son’ts HS. They competed probably 4 times per year. Two HS competitions and usually 2 college sponsered ones. They were also able to go to the Harvard MUN which was great. He usually had to write position papers before a conference.
At another school in our area, MUN was a regular class and involved a lot of work on a regular basis.
MUN is also a club in college (my son is in it as a college freshman and really loves it.)
The colleges compete against one another and also sponser competitions at the high school level.
And yeah Pgh–he’ll make a great president some day! :)</p>