THE DAILY
No. 3
SAIMUNER Wednesday, June 21st 2017
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#SAIMUN17 High School Delegates By Cynthia Makena different countries would have an extended and heated, informal debate. In this debates, each country would try to explain the reasons for their earlier statements. Mr. Nyiro, however felt that there should be more time allowed and a clear-cut procedure of when one delegate may correct another delegate as he felt the ‘point of information’ did not accommodate this.
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Brian Maina and Clement Nyiro
The first Kenyan SAIMUN conference is privileged to have delegates from various high schools.
Nairobi Jaffrey’s academy Ms. Raeesah Mughal, enjoyed her sessions in the DISEC committee especially because she would like to pursue Law and Chemical engineering. The SAIMUN experience therefore, gave her the exposure she needed in pursuing this. She however
Among them were Alliance Boys students Mr. Brian Maina and Mr. Clement Nyiro, who both felt that the SAIMUN conference is amazing and insightful. They particularly enjoyed the debate sessions as they felt that it allowed them to show case their debating skills supported by the intense research they had been working on. Mr Maina in particular, felt the sessions were “expected and insightful.” He explained that the sessions were expected because his father had explained to him the proceedings earlier on and prepared him for them. He did however feel that some university students were not adequately prepared for the debates and encouraged the delegates in the next conference to do vast research so that they could have in-depth discussions and come up with more diplomatic policies for the issues that face different countries in the different committees. Mr. Nyiro, like Mr. Maina, especially enjoyed the time after the sessions when the delegates from
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Raeesah Mughal in DISEC Committee
believed that a lot more could be improved stating, “We can always do more research and go deeper until we reach the solutions to the problems.” Ms. Mughal especially enjoyed interacting with new people and the after-session debates. It is clear that the high school students have enjoyed their experience in the conference including the open-minded environment within the debate and the social interaction with the members of the conference.