The Model United Nations Club (MUN) is an after school club for all students from ninth to twelfth grade. Model U.N. not only looks good on your college resumé, but helps you develop public speaking skills, and sharpen your critical thinking skills in solving negative, and puzzling situations. Among the opportunites offered, students will also start to feel pride in being part of the team and competing in meets across Virginia. The club is basically a "role playing" game where members act as a delegate from another country and are forced into a situation of world wide problems that are current today. (think Mary-Kate and Ashley in Winning London.)

A Model UN simulates the activities of a representative body of the United Nations, usually the Security Council or the General Assembly and its committees. Students assume the roles of the diplomatic representatives of the member states of the United Nations. They meet to consider, debate, and attempt to resolve controversial items from the UN’s vast agenda. Through this role-playing simulation, students are able to gain a greater understanding of global issues. .

The MUN club is by no means an “elite” activity just for certain students. There is room for everyone who seeks a better understanding of the world, and how change and progress is made at the international level. We need: leaders and followers, negotiators and debaters, writers and spokesmen, experts and diplomats.

http://www.un.org/

http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/modelun/index.asp

official list of member nations of the United Nations