SacC MUN 2020 Bulletin #4: The Most Values-able Meeting of the Year!

Parents - please share this email with your Ambassador if they don't have an email address of their own yet, and if they do have an address, remind them to check their inbox! 

At the next meeting: We'll choose our Values and Sustainability Goal for this year. 

What's due:  Sustainability Goals Volunteers should be prepared to share information about their selected Sustainability Goal
What's overdue: Spring Break Survey - help us finalize our meeting schedule by completing this survey today! 

1.) Values Meeting, Tuesday, February 4 - Required Meeting! At the next meeting, we'll discuss one of the most important topics on our yearly agenda: our delegation values. Who do we want to be and how do we want to be know at our conferences and in our community? We'll talk about values and how they contribute to culture and to the solutions we create for the big problems facing the world. It's very important that all Ambassadors attend this meeting. 

2.) Sweatshirt Design Selection: Our values will be featured along with our chosen Sustainability Goal for the year on our Delegation sweatshirt! This week when we wrap up our goals sharing (item #3), we'll have what we need to get our shirts made. At the last meeting, we used caucus style voting to narrow down our color choices from 18 to 4 to the winner. This year's sweatshirt - for Sac Central and our sister delegation Gold Country - will be Light Pink! 

3.) Sharing Sustainability Development Goals DEADLINE THIS WEEK. At the next meeting, we need to wrap up our learning about the UN's sustainability goals. Here is who will present - note, two Ambassadors absent last week have been volunteered and assigned - so read the list carefully! 

• Rowan on Goal 13
• Azadeh on Goal 15
• Adelaide on Goal 7
• Hugo on Goal 8
• Cooper on Goal 16
• Kennedy on Goal 4
• Asher on Goal 11
• Harry on Goal 12

The worksheet to use so you have notes on all the information to share can be found here. Ambassadors should be prepared to share for 1-2 minutes and don't need to have anything memorized. They can read from their worksheets. 

4.) Weekly Universal Declaration of Human Rights Articles: Each week, the bulletin will include 1-3 articles from the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We may use these as discussion or debate topics at meetings from time to time. You can learn more about the Declaration here and make sure to read the Preamble!

• Article 6. Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.
• Article 7. All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.
• Article 8. Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.
• Article 9. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

Reminders: 

Resolutions Review: This week, we learned about "Resolutions" - which are the documents that members of the UN create to share their proposals for how to make the world a better place. Resolutions have two parts: Preambulatory Clauses and Operative Phrases. If you want to review Resolutions, check out the presentation here. To review the script for how we share resolutions in MUN, check out this link. 

Parent Corner

- Spring Break Survey: Last year, the conference fell during spring break for many Ambassadors - not so this year! To help us plan our April meeting schedule - which is full of important conference prep - please complete this short spring break survey to help us finalize the meeting schedule. 

- Conference Transportation Plans. Registration closes this Friday and we'll know the total number of Ambassadors in our Coalition. With that information, we'll be able to finalize our transportation plans. It looks likely that we will be organizing carpools for the Northern California training conference in March and that we will either be flying, or sharing a bus with a neighboring delegation for our trip to Los Angeles in April. We'll let you know ASAP! 

-Please Remind Your Ambassador to Complete The Sustainability Goals Worksheet! If your Ambassador's name is listed above, please make sure they complete their sustainability goals worksheet and bring it back next week, prepared to share with the delegation. All of our Ambassadors did a great job this week sharing and speaking in front of the group - so remind them that they can do this! Their Advisors believe in them! We're hoping to complete this project within the next two meetings so that we can use the information we've learned about to design our delegation sweatshirt this year. 

Thank you!

-Amanda Levy and Christiana Dominguez

Co-Lead Advisors, Sacramento Central MUN Delegation

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Snack Schedule

Mark your calendars:

February 18: No meeting

March 14-15: MUN Training Conference, Camp Jones Gulch

April 23-26: 19th MUN Summit, Los Angeles

We are committed to equal program access for all and are dedicated to ensuring the benefits of Y&G MLC and MUN are available to every student in our community without regard to financial need. No delegate should ever drop out or refrain from joining because of financial concerns. If you want to do this program, we want you to do this program. Please talk to us if your financial circumstances change during the program year. We're here to help.