NHSMUN 2020 Summer Staff Meeting

NHSMUN 2020 may still be 7 months away, but we're always planning exciting new features for the conference! This past week, our staff met in New York City to perfect our background guides, prepare for the start of our fall registration, and meet with amazing new partners to make...

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NHSMUN 2020 Topics Are Live!

  The NHSMUN 2020 committee topics have been announced! CLICK HERE to access the committees and their topics. Each year, NHSMUN prides itself on its committees' diverse, realistic, and extremely relevant topic choices. NHSMUN 2020 is no different! Congratulations to the incredible substantive directors for all the hard work they...

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Step With Refugees – WRD 2019

June 20 marks World Refugee Day, and NHSMUN joins with peer organizations around the world to recognize the intrinsic right for all to freely seek out safety, stability, and other basic rights such as employment, healthcare, and education. At the end of 2018, a record high of 70.8 million...

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World Environment Day

Today on World Environment Day, the NHSMUN staff is spreading awareness of how to protect the environment, using the lens of the 2019 theme of air pollution.More information about World Environment Day, from the 2019 website:World Environment Day is the United Nations day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action...

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Locals promote participation in national, global programs

The following article was published in The Kentucky Standard on May 24, 2019, featuring one of NHSMUN's delegates and her terrific initiative to promote MUN in her area. The article is posted with permission from The Kentucky Standard.A local eighth-grader is promoting participation among area high school students in...

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Fall 2018 Video Contest for NHSMUN 2019

Below is a new scholarship opportunity to participate in NHSMUN 2019! Each school or team is eligible to submit a video in response to one of the two prompts below. Winners will receive a $1000 scholarship, to be used toward NHSMUN 2019 conference fees. Submissions are due by October...

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Model UN and Youth Involvement at the 67th Annual DPI/NGO Conference

IMUNA was honored and excited to participate in last week’s 67th Annual DPI/NGO Conference, hosted by the United Nations Department of Public Information and taking place at the UN Headquarters in New York City. The conference was a meeting of more than 2,000 NGO representatives from around the world...

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Students Show Incredible Growth at Inaugural IMUNA Summer Program

I know I'm repeating this, but I'm serious--this program and these people I've met have exceeded my expectations from day one. It was so hard to leave.The results are in! The inaugural IMUNA Summer Program, held from July 22-28, 2018, was a huge success among participants, scoring a 100%...

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67th United Nations DPI/NGO Conference: Youth Involvement

The 67th United Nations DPI/NGO Conference, entitled "We the Peoples...Together Finding Solutions for Global Problems," will be convening on August 22-23, 2018, at the UN Headquarters in New York. This is the premier UN event on the NGO calendar. Over 2,000 civil society representatives from around the world are...

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Spring Video Contest: UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015 at a UN Sustainable Development Summit, world leaders adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The UN describes the SDGs as follows: "The SDGs, also known as Global Goals, build on the success of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)...

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