On Saturday, September 26, six intrepid middle school students took part in the Greater Boston Model UN Conference sponsored by the United Nations Association of Greater Boston. The students participated with about 400 other middle school students from around New England, who came together to discuss the topic of preventing water-related disease outbreaks.
Our students represented Bangladesh and Canada, and they took part in debates over how to craft solutions. As described by the United Nations, access to clean water is a human right. The goal set out by the UN is that the whole globe has access to clean water by 2030. We are currently not on track to reach that goal. What should the priorities be with our global solutions? From policy solutions to innovation, our students were committed to proposing creative solutions. They thought through the interconnected nature of both the problems and the solutions.
Our students were active and engaged, and they gained a solid foundation for other conferences that will come up later this year. Watch this space for more news from this term’s Model UN club, which includes nineteen students in grades 6-8. BDS participants at the conference were eighth graders Elena Lin and Stuart Sun, seventh graders Ben Fucci, Zade Wulfsberg, and Nick Yu, and sixth grader Angela Ning.
– Jennifer Friborg, Capstone coordinator and Model UN Club advisor
