Model United Nations is a program that trains
students in debate, research, speaking, and writing skills,
which the students acquire through training to become actual
delegates of the United Nations. It is a simulation activity
which encourages students to become more aware of current events
and engaged in world politics.
In the Spring Semester, the Model United
Nations program attended TAIMUN, or the The Model United Nations
in Taichung. Over forty students attended. Kevin Chu, and Sharyl
Sun served as chairs and Kenneth Jeng was IBSH’s school
ambassador. Our students acquitted themselves extremely well,
debating topics such as global warming, the pirate situation in
Somalia, and human rights. In the process our students also met
many other students from other schools from throughout Taiwan
and the Hsinchu area.
The Model United Nations program at IBSH has
doubled in size in the last two years. Presently our program
attends three conferences: We run our own conference in the
fall-HSIMUN-for students in the Hsinchu area, we attend the
International Model United Nations in Singapore, a branch of the
largest MUN conference in the world, the conference in the
Hague, and we attend TAIMUN in Taichung, Taiwan. In June, our
school will host an MUN workshop which will train interested
students in MUN resolution writing, debate, and procedures so
that we will be able to send an even stronger team to Singapore
next year. Our program is now big enough to be run as a club-a
regular after school activity, and I anticipate even more growth
in the future.
In addition, this year, our school
successfully competed for a grant from the Ministry of Education
so that both our UNICEF and MUN programs can be officially
recognized by the Ministry of Education, by virtue of their
value as English and character education.
