LEONARDTOWN, Md. – Every February for Leonardtown High School students signifies the excitement that their annual Model United Conference brings. This conference attended by students grades 5-12 (including private school students) “provides students with the opportunity to learn about world issues and participate in diplomatic negotiation in an attempt to address world problems from the perspective of different countries.”
The event was very popular before COVID-19, but after the pandemic, it struggled to regain its former status. A co-sponsor helped the event to recover.
“I would argue things have returned to Pre-COVID years, our student Secretary-General was phenomenal with her team of student leaders, this year’s event was the best I have experienced in recent years,” Tracy Harding told The BayNet.
Senior student, and Secretary-General of the conference, Lillian Kibler led and oversaw the rather large conference where students were split up based on their grade levels and learned a little bit more about real-world issues and what is being done to help.
During the discussions held at different levels, the students talked about various topics. For the elementary-level discussions, the students talked about education in developing countries and the issue of desertification in the Sahara.
The middle-grade students discussed topics like the weaponization of space, water sanitation, and the resulting diseases. On the other hand, the higher-level students discussed more complex topics such as internet access in restricted countries, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the fallout of Afghanistan.
“Most of the work is done by student leadership, registration, country and committee assignment, topic selection/issue brief writing, and chair committees are all student managed- they are amazing young people,” said Harding.
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interesting that you should mention this because I’m doing research to see how many nations allow their residents to contact their government. The US Congress websites restricts us to only contact our own members of Congress and not go Congress shopping.