MUN travels to New York

By Georgia Grad

e school’s Model United Nations (MUN) team traveled to New York City to attend the National High School Model United Nations (NHSMUN) conference from March 15-18. e conference put them into committees and assigned a country and debatable topic to solve.

MUN Secretary and Treasurer Jake Lancer ’24 said that this conference provided the team with an opportunity to apply the skills they had been working on.

“We brought some younger people with us, and they got more opportunities and experience,” Lancer said. “ ey’ve been practicing a lot, so I was really excited to see them improve because I’ve been invested in their progression over the past couple of months. For myself, just the opportunity to get to go to a big conference was amazing, and I was excited to compete and just try my hardest.”

Lancer said that while team members took the conference seriously, it was also an opportunity to spend time together as a group.

“It was a travel conference, so we stayed as a team multiple nights, which I think added a greater sense of community,” Lancer said. “We’ve done travel trips, but not cross country.”

MUN Vice President Owen Huang ’24 said both returning and new delegates on the team are performing strongly this season.

“We’ve had a lot of success this year winning as a delegation at e [University of California, San Diego], the [University of California, Santa Barbara] and Marymount High School,” Huang said. “We’ve also had a good amount of individual awards, and I think that in the last couple of conferences of the year, we’re going to be able to build o of that, which is pretty exciting. One of the main things that we try to do with MUN is just meet new people.”