SRHS students host Model U.N. conference

By Ashley Shah

The Scripps Ranch High School (SRHS) Model United Nations (MUN) organization is holding a MUN conference by Zoom on May 13.

MUN is an organization available to students in middle and high school. It focuses on modeling how the United Nations work to solve global issues.

“Similar to the actual United Nations, we are given a topic and we are expected to represent a country, and debate the topic from the country’s standpoint. All ‘countries’ in the room have to come to a resolution for the issue,” said Aliza Alibhai, cosecretary general of the conference.

The organization meets weekly to develop skills, such as writing resolution papers for the issues, practicing public speaking and learning how to debate with others respectfully.

Those in MUN are able to showcase their skills at conferences throughout the year. The conferences typically oc- cur from October to May.

“By the end of the conference season, the SRHS MUN team will have gone to about four conferences,” Alibhai said.

Not only can schools attend conferences, but they can also host them. Co-secretary generals Aliza Alibhai and Nathan Min have been working on getting their conference set up for months.

“Planning a conference takes a lot of work and coordination. It begins with making lots of documents to plan how the event will run, and what topics we are going to choose for the debate rooms. We needed to make sure that we had enough staff to keep the rooms going as well,” Alibhai said.

The SRHS MUN team has about four people per room to help the conference move along.

So far, about seven schools will be participating in their conference.

“There are about three middle schools and four high schools, including our school. In the conference, we

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