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MMUN Bureau 2019: NYC

I have just finished the working as the chair for the ECOFIN committee for the middle school MMUN conference in New York.  It was a great experience working with the other members of my bureau, my vice-chair and rapporteur, to carry out the rules of procedure during the conference and aid the students in creating resolutions for the topics. I am still amazed by the ability of these students to work together on these issues regarding Women's Development and Sustainable Energy in the world. Each person is participating with the intention of creating a viable solution for these topics and this conversation brought me back to my own time in this debate.

One particular situation occurred during this conference where I had to consider what action take as one of the students in room simply left without prior permission. The area that the conference takes place in is also publicly accessible, which makes an unsupervised student with unknown whereabouts an issue especially with the younger ones. The student did come back after a short period of time, but I had to consider what action to take. This was a large issue as while these students work on topics that people much older have issues understanding, they are still in middle school and are still in a learning process. I consulted my the secretariat of bureau for advice and decided to take this as a learning experience, for myself and for the student. I gave a warning to the student and to his chaperone saying that while his leaving was not an issue, it could not happen again and provided the reasons why. They both understood my reasoning and the student ensured to notify one of the bureau members when he needed to leave.


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