Youth
MMUN believes in the transformative power of youth. By exploring global issues and fostering deeper understanding, you have the ability to take action and shape a more sustainable, equitable future. Your voice is vital, and your impact is essential in building a world we can all believe in.
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MMUN Mementos
Enrich your conference experience with MMUN Mementos, an interactive collection of resources and activities.
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Meaningful Student Impact
Students are changed through the process of becoming an MMUN delegate. Representing a country is a very real activity for a young person, not just a simulation, and they discover that they can become active in solving real-world problems. That discovery lasts a life-time.
SONGWRITING
Interested students (singers, rappers, poets public speakers and musicians) can apply to create an original song on a specific SDG with Chad Harper, an Emmy nominated artist/producer.
SDG DESIGNS
Interested students can create an original design for the conference that illustrates Maria Montessori’s vision of having children collaborate to find solutions to the SDG Goals.
CULTURAL PERFORMANCE NIGHT
Students can participate in a Cultural Performance event, watching or performing musical numbers or skits that represent their own culture, the culture they learned about, or the SDGs theme of the conference!
Anatomy of a
Conference
Opening Ceremony
Feel the excitement as each conference is launched! This formal ceremony opens the simulation where students publicly represent their country delegations.
Celebration of Nations
The Opening Ceremony begins with a Celebration of Nations, where each country delegation’s flag is represented. School groups also prepare Country Presentations so that all delegations can learn more about the other nations represented.
Committee Sessions
Students learn how to work in teams online or in-person, interact with other cultures, and follow rules of procedure like those at the UN.
SDG Design
Consistent with Maria Montessori’s vision of having children collaborate to find solutions to the world’s most pressing problems, participating students submit a design that illustrates one particular SDG highlighting the theme for the conference.
Songwriting
Selected delegates work with Emmy nominated talent during each conference to compose an original song and lyrics surrounding world issues, and then to perform it live.
PROGRAM COMPONENTS
Working Sessions
The students participate in two Working Sessions in English where they apply committee protocol to pressing societal questions with their peers, engaging them to think creatively about global issues that specifically affect young people while gaining confidence in the process.
Student Meet-ups
Students become socially familiar with the MMUN international peer community while they have fun together at social events like Community Meet-Ups where they have informal exchanges and do activities which contribute to their sense of belonging to a larger international community beyond their classroom.
COORDINATOR MEETUPS
Teacher and Parent Coordinators registered for the program, also have the opportunity to meetup twice within the year to discuss best practices with MMUN staff and other coordinators who are also preparing students.
YLP WORKSHOPS
Parents, Observers and Chaperones are supported with workshops on topics such as Fostering Global Ambassadorship, Practicing Negotiation Outside of Committee, which offer guidance for how to help their student delegates as they prepare for committee debate and negotiation.
Conference
To culminate the program, students attend an international conference of their choice where they work together and socialize (over 8 days for an online conference and 4 for onsite conferences). The final result is a transformational experience as they negotiate with their peers on the solutions to world problems, witnessing the impact of their voices and vision.
DISCOVER OUR
DELEGATES’ RESOLUTIONS
Online 2024
Conference resolutions
UE and MS
Rome 2024
Conference resolutions
UE
Rome 2024
Conference resolutions
MS
March 2024 NYC
Conference resolutions
MS
March 2024 NYC
Conference resolutions
UE
February 2024 NYC
Conference resolutions
UE
February 2024 NYC
Conference resolutions
MS
2023 Online
Conference resolutions
UE & MS
2023 NYC March
Conference resolutions
UE
2023 NYC March
Conference resolutions
MS
2023 NYC February
Conference resolutions
UE
2023 NYC February
Conference resolutions
MS
What’s Next
After taking part in at least one conference, student delegates are invited to attend a Leadership Course to become Bureau Members who act as facilitators for Delegates.
Our Bureau is made up of both teachers and students from Middle Schools, High Schools and Universities.
My Fellow Delegates
In this original film series by the Montessori Model United Nations (MMUN), step into the perspectives of four student delegates – Reisha, Noor, Orion, and Sienna – who journey to New York City for the annual MMUN conference where thousands of youths come together to role play as world leaders with hopes of resolving global conflict, transforming themselves, and making new friends.
Social Events
Delegates share world cultures by performing musical numbers, sharing traditional recipes, providing a language demo related to either their home country or the country that they are representing during the conference.