The Mira Costa Model United Nations students have had an active start to the season. Over the past few weeks, students have been working tirelessly to prepare for local conferences by collecting information, writing research papers, and preparing speeches. The first Advanced conference was at Edison High School on October
For the past few weeks, Mira Costa Model UN students have been hard at work. Across all three of the advanced MUN periods, students successfully debated and ratified resolutions for two in-class debates. Some topics focused on direct crises such as the current instability throughout Venezuela, while others centered around
On February 12th, a delegation of 20 students from Mira Costa Model United Nations traveled to Washington, D.C. to attend NAIMUN at Georgetown University. The trip began with a team building exercise around D.C. and Georgetown, taking the students to sights including the White House, the Washington Monument, and the
Mira Costa Model United Nations was competing on both coasts this weekend, with a team of thirty-seven competing in Chicago at MUNUC, and others competing at Surf City in Huntington Beach. On Monday, January 29th, MUN students arrived in Chicago to compete at the University of Chicago’s 30th annual conference.
Mira Costa Model United Nations hosted LAIMUN XXIII at Mira Costa on December 2nd and 3rd. Over 1,200 students from Southern California participated in the debate in committees ranging from Security Councils to the General Assembly. The conference was fully student-organized and run. Unique international topics were debated, such as
Throughout the past week, the advanced classes of Mira Costa Model UN recounted the lessons they learned from the past conference, Edison, in a tradition known as “Good of the Order.” In this practice, students share stories from their committees in front of the class and listen to others in
For the past two weeks, the Mira Costa Model UN program has conducted four in-class debates and attended two outside debates. The advanced Model UN class completed two debates on the topics of Terrorism in Europe and Assimilation of Refugees into Europe. The students debated solutions on how to prevent
Mira Costa Model United Nations held their annual senior-sophomore team day on Friday, September 8, 2017. The seniors and sophomores grouped into teams and participated in an Amazing Race-style scavenger hunt across the Mira Costa campus. This annual tradition allows for the older students to get to know the younger