Mira Costa Model United Nations in one of the top programs in the world. For the past 20+ years, Mira Costa has traveled, competed, and won internationally in simulations of the United Nations such as NHSMUN in New York, NAIMUN in Washington DC, and PAMUN in Paris. We also host our own conference at Mira Costa, LAIMUN, in which students become experts on a topic and chair committees where other schools debate.
But what is the MUN? MUN aims to be an authentic simulation of the United Nations – complete with Security Council, General Assembly, an ECOSOC committee as well as a wide range of other sub-committees, a Secretariat headed by the Secretary General, a Press Corp and of course the delegates.
During a conference, there are committees dealing with issues such as health, politics, disarmament and the environment. Delegates representing the same state together form a ‘delegation’. The ultimate objective of every delegate is to produce, lobby support for, debate and ultimately pass a resolution on one of the topic areas within their committee. A resolution is the proposed solution to a problem and forms the main focus of the debate. Students who are a part of Mira Costa Model UN graduate with skills in public speaking, debate, research, and writing. Most importantly, students gain an understanding of the world as it is today.
Model UN students traveled both to the BMUN conference at UC Berkeley and the NHSMUN conference at New York. Both teams were very successful with many Costa delegates winning awards. At BMUN, two partnerships won the best delegate award, three partnerships and one delegate won the outstanding award, and 2…
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On February 2nd and 3rd, many of our students participated in Surf City XXI in Huntington Beach. In addition to many individual accolades, our students took home the award for the Best Large Delegation. Great work! “This is Costa 2” is almost here. Our General Secretaries and Chiefs of Staff…
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On December 2nd and 3rd, the Mira Costa Model United Nations program hosted their 29th annual LAIMUN conference. It brought together 1,250 delegates from all across Southern California to debate topics and problems which our world face today. Huntington Beach High School won the best large school delegation award, and…
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Our exceptional lead teachers and students worked hard for weeks to prepare for meetings in McGill University in Montreal, Brown University in Rhode Island, and UCLA. Our Mira Costa program was recognized with many awards, including “the best large delegation” at BUSUN, SSUNS, and BruinMUN. We congratulated the individual students…
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Here is a calendar of the semester’s conferences that culminate with our very own LAIMUN, the largest Model UN conference in Southern California. October 14, 15, 2023 Edison High School Fall Conference October 28 & 29, 2023 Cerritos High School Conference November 6-12, 2023 …
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This past month, MUN participated in NHSMUN in New York, and USC MUN. We were very successful in these debates. Five people got first place at USC MUN, and we got the best small delegation! We also had a fantastic This is Costa Night with a packed MUN room for…
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