2025-2026 Activities

1973 Crisis in Northern Ireland: In-class Conference

March 18-27, 2026

This week SSIMS students were tasked with trying to solve a historical crisis set in Northern Ireland during the year 1973. The conference goal was to restore peace to the region by meeting the needs of all stakeholders. This topic was selected by our students Wren and Keira and they wrote the entire 8-page Background Guide and created the classroom materials and selected & trained the conference leaders (dais) for each class period. The conference was tumultuous and peace negotiations were tense between all countries/roles involved. At the start of the conference we were all nervous that a peace deal would not be reached and at times, it seemed very uncertain. However, the students ultimately demonstrated their ability to collaborate, problem-solve, compromise, and achieve their shared goals. The students passed Resolutions to end the conflict in 1973, 25 years prior to its historical conclusion.

Country Placards

Writing Resolutions

Peace Negotiations

Proposing Motions

United for Peace

In March, Model UN students worked on a mini project about the Rwandan Genocide. The students made artwork to represent what they learned and the message of "Never Again" is an important one. Their powerful work is showcased in a new bulletin board on the 2nd floor hallway. SSIMS students want a more peaceful world.

NHSMUN Conference

New York, New York

SSIMS students made MCPS news- check it out!

March In-Class Model UN Conference

March 2-9, 2026

We held our 3rd in-class MUN conference of this academic year to prepare for our New York conference. This was our most challenging conference this year because we combined 24 different topics into one conference. We added a new element this time - amendments for our resolutions. The delegates did a tremendous job presenting information on a diverese range of topics. As always, student leaders facilitated the conference for each class period and delegates led the conference through a series of motions for moderated and unmoderated caucuses. The delegates presented their resolutions and the chairs led the voting procedures. Overall, we learned a lot about the world and identified important solutions to some of the most pressing issues, such as Preserving and Revitalizing Indigenous Languages in Tanzania, the Conservation of Migratory Bat Species in Chile, and Romania’s historical position on the Situation in the State of Katanga in 1962. It was an amazing week of students sharing ideas and information and working together. Here are some of the main ideas that students shared that they learned in the conference:

I learned that we should teach indigenous languages in school.
We need to be responsible how and when we use A.I. in education.
Thats access to digital tech is scarce and needs to be reachable to people in indigenous places.

Country Placards

Reading Amendments for Resolutions

Making Motions during Moderated Caucuses

Frederick County Model United Nations Conference

Frederick, Maryland

On January 10, 2026, SSIMS had 34 students attend the Frederick County Model United Nations Conference at Frederick High School in Frederick Maryland. The conference was an immense success and students had fun debating, sharing ideas, and writing resolutions throughout the day. Here is what one student had to say, "I would love to attend the FCPS MUN Conference again! It's a very welcoming place and has an evident passion for MUN. It's great for both seasoned and new Model UN students as the conference offers a 'low-stakes' environment without leaving out the challenge of participating in MUN!" Our students were proud to win 13 awards at the conference. We want to send a special thank you to Dr. Collazo for volunteering to chaperone the field trip for our students.

"My favorite part was the time when we were going to do our resolutions and we got to talk to a lot of people from different places to work together."

"The FCPS MUN conference was an amazing, interesting, informing, and engaging experience that I would definitely recommend to everyone."

"The FCPS MUN Conference was one of the best conferences that I have ever been to."

Winston Churchill Model United Nations Conference

Potomac, Maryland

Twenty-six SSIMS students attended the Winston Churchill Model UN Conference on December 13, 2025. With topics ranging from the Salem Witch Trial to Microplastics and Marine Pollution to Pokemon. The students had an amazing time meeting other students from the DMV region. Two of our students won the award for Best Delegate at the conference.

December In-Class Model UN Conference

December 15-19, 2025

We held our 2nd in class Model UN conference of the school year on the topic of preparing for the FCPS Conference. Students worked as the leaders of the conference (dais) and nearly every single student delivered their opening speeches. It was a fun three days of debate, collaboration, and sharing ideas.

Working collaboratively

Drafting resolutions

Brainstorming ideas

Voting on resolutions

Georgetown SDG Summit

Washington D.C.

On November 15, 2025 28 SSIMs students participated in the Georgetown SDG Summit where students spent the day discussing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and identifying concrete solutions to many of the world's most pressing global issues. The students loved having a conference on the beauitful Georgetown campus and we took a brief tour during lunch. The students had the opportunity to learn from incredlbly inspiring students in the Georgetown International Relations Association (GIRA). One student shared, "A important idea I learned was about my SDG topic. I thought it was crazy that 1/3 of all the food produced goes to waste." Another student added, "I learned about advocacy and how to advocate for issues you care about."

Washington International Relations Conference

Washington D.C.

On November 8, 2025 28 SSIMs students participated in the Washington International Relations Conference (WIRC) at American University in Washington DC. Students learned a lot of detailed and specific information about model united nations procedures and information. Here is some of the feedback from the students:

"I liked how it was very organized and I liked learning how to write crisis notes."
"American was REALLY fun! "
"I learned how to be an a crisis assembly and how to write crisis arcs and notations."
"I really enjoyed the formatting of American, since it had lecture-type of classes, and a full conference. I really enjoyed the mix of classes, and it honestly doesn't feel that long once you get there. It went by really fast for me! There's also a Starbucks on campus so, pretty awesome sauce. (Also, bring a notebook. You will need it!)"

SSIMS WHO Model UN Conference

We held our first ever in class Model UN Conference from October 27-31, 2025. The topic was about preventing childhood diseases through the use of vaccines. Nearly every student gave their opening speech and presented their resolutions. It was an educational week filled with debate, discussion, and brainstorming solutions for a critically important issue. The students led the conference sessions and the delegates actively participated by making motions and presenting their country's position on the topic.

The Secretariat

Presenting Resolutions

Makiing Motions

SSIMS Poems for Peace

September 21, 2025

Call us aliens

Send us back to our countries

Not able to live free

-Cadence C., 7th grade

For many long years

Long long discrimination

It never ended

-Derrick K, 7th grade

Forgiveness is key

Without it we are just stranded

Alone, lost, forgotten

-Charlotte H, 8th grade

To make others heard

We support their ideas

A bird with a song

-Anonymous

We all fight for peace

What will it take to get it?

Hopefully not war

-Lia G, 8th grade

For peace and no war

Its something we all strive for

Sadly its no more

-Jongkolanei, 8th grade

A goal in mind: Peace

Difficult to find: Peace

All love, no fighting: Peace

-Charlotte S. 8th grade

Peace: a bird that flies

Violence: a bird that dies

What will you decide?

-Anonymous

Dawn breaks on cool ground

Mist drifts, no voices linger

Peace blooms quietly

-Fiona C, 8th grade

Dove spreads joy and peace

Hunter lies waiting to shoot

Peace around bones

On the ground

-Anonymous

Our world is on fire

The dove keeps flying

As we build empires

The doves keep flying.

Be a dove, be a raven

Be a crow, be a pigeon.

Just keep flying.

-Noah, 8th grade

Not a privilege

To live without fear or war

It's a human right

-Anonymous

Everyone searches

for peace. As rifles are fired

and lives are lost.

-Olivia B 8th grade

Silver doves break the silence

Black clouds race across

Peace falls to the ground

-Rory H, 7th grade

In a world of peace

Culture blends like gentle streams

Harmony’s embrace

-Anonymous

Remember

The backs that broke to take us here

The lives they lost to taste clean air

We owe it to them to learn to love

The time has come, put down your gun

-Alyssia G, 8th grade

Don’t let chaos start

Because that is when peace ends

Don't let this begin

-Faith L, 7th grade

All of us have blood

It should not be shed but loved

Be kind to others

-Anonymous

What’s peace? Good question.

Safety around the whole world

Or just a good life?

-Anonymous

UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS WRITTEN IN BRAINROT

SDG 1

SDG #1: Yeet broke chuzz out everywhere. 808 million people live below the skibi line, and this leads to NPC syndrome, chronic mewing, and higher grimace rates. Everyone deserves the rizz to live 100,000 aura healthy lives by 2030. Everyone should have 24K labubu's.

SDG 2

SDG-2 is ending the munchies, fam. It's got three main vibes: snagging those safe snackies, dunking all mega malnourish moments, and nerfing food panic mode.

ts world lowkey needs fruits vs brainrots fruits to nutrisize the labubus and livvy Dunne so that baby gronk can grow a big strong gyatt to rizz the huzz any day. the delulus need fuel to mew and mog Kai cenat on fortnite. everyone needs 67 to mog the haters and rizz the chuzz and huzzah alike. Unc is on his villain arc if he doesn't eat.

SDG 3

Basically, SDG 3 is about making sure everyone, everywhere, is living their best Sigma life, no matter their level. We gotta protect the mini-goons and the OGs, and make sure fewer people are getting clapped by stuff that's totally L. We're trying to end the plague-like vibes, but also focus on the inner skibidi, you know? Mental health is key to rizz. And we're vibing toward a future where everyone has access to the essentials to be healthy, and where no one has to go broke just to get a Skibidi check-up.

SDG 4

SDG 4 (67) be like leveling up the world's braincells and aura points, making sure everyone gets that giga-chad knowledge boost they deserve 📚💯. In 2021, like 67 million zoomers were ghosting school, which is NOT skibidi. SDG 4 is trying to make sure that kind of flop never goes down again.

SDG 5

SDG 5 is all about making sure that baddies have more than 6 or 7 equal opportunities to rizz and doomscroll compared to being like brother Noah’s and Khaby Lame mechanisms. No cap, baddies in Ohio having sigma rights make the world more rizzy and skibidi, but without the toilet. Girls are very alpha bluds compared to zesty baby gronk boys who can’t mew or look max!

SDG 6

SDG 6: H2rizz is key to human sayyt. More H2rizz, better Ohio vibes worldwide. Everyone should have access to H2rizz, but not everywhere is skibidi. Billions struggle every year, yapping for H2rizz. We gotta level up water quality and sanitation, or the world's pop will keep rizzing.

SDG 7

We got SDG 7 and it's all about that budget-friendly and clean energy. This is mega crucial for the world cuz everything relies hecka on energy, like dubai chocolate.

SDG 7 is about Sigmas being skibiti while doom scrolling with clean tung tung sahor energy. These baddies have peak aura and help the OG's get clean and affordable prime energy. It's Giving. Slay. Period. No joke. Ate up. Get it. 67. 41.

SDG 8

SDG 8 is all about boosting that rizz for long-lasting, goated economic glow-ups, full-on productivity grindset, and slay jobs for everyone. This level-up targets epic gains through vibes that spawn job rizz, gig wizardry, and big-brain ideas, while also yeeting forced labor, kiddo work, and bad vibes, plus keeping the grind safe for all the work homies.

SDG 9

BTW WSG FELLOW RIZZLERSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS,sdg 9 is like, buildin' gud infra, makin' industries inclusive and sustainable, and inovashun! Factory makin' and new stuff, ya know? MEGA KNIGHTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT💀🥀I JUST LOST MY DOGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG JAYDENS BUS IS HEREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 6767 JINGLE JINGLE JINGLE PANCAKESSSS

SDG 10

OKAY SO BASICALLY SDG 10 IS LIKE “NO MORE UNFAIR VIBES” 🚫😤 everyone gets SAME RIGHTS SAME ENERGY SAME SEATS AT THE TABLE no matter where u from or how many brain cells u got ✨✨ equality but make it GLOBAL like not just ur lil hometown but the WHOLE PLANET 🌍💅 and they’re like “immigrants?? YEAH besties we got u 💖” also equal rep so no one’s left in the corner eating stale chips while the rich ppl have caviar 💀💀 socially ✅ economically ✅ intergalactically (ok maybe not but like… vibes) SKSKSK IM CRYIN THIS IS JUST WORLD PEACE BUT WITH PAPERWORK 😭✈️📜

SDG 11

Slide with budget-friendly and gigachad-worthy rides and touch grass while mewing. Give brainrots like Tung Tung Tung Tung Sahur a safe and nice home. Goal 11 gives people who are on the edge of the Ohio map a chance to lock in and lowkey turn into the huzz. John Pork will stop calling and you will be extremely tuff. Instead of beinf delulu you'll be resilient and live in an inclusive neighborhood/street no cap no cap fr fr. Goal 11 is very skibidi and will be so much more sigma and giga chad.

SDG 12

SDG 12: Reduce matcha waste to at most 67 pounds a month and buy only as much Dubai chocolate as you need.

SDG 13

Blud you gotta lock in, no cap our planet is not in the grindset. Our planet needs to get skibidi and fr needs to get out of the goofy ahh ahh state it's in. So y'all pull yours heads out of the griddy and start simping over the planet.

SDG 14

SDG 14 is to keep oceans sigma cuz if the oceans are gone we're cooked, like deaduzz. Cuz like imagine an alien huzz comes to earth... we're cooked bro. Like having no water is cringe fr. No water... thats like only in Ohio type shyt. Like what is bro on? LIke stand on business bro...

SDG 15

SDG:15 Susake came back to the village which allowed him to harness his spirit animal which he then went walking down the street yelling "hipoty hopoty we steal the money and the property". Then he ran into Timothy Tough Knuckles who punch's metal for fun. Then got stuck in the laundry machine then sakura yelled "come help me". Then Rebellious Randy came along who in unc and is pushing 70.

SDG 16

SDG 16 is peak Sigma grindset because it’s all about that rizzing peace, edging justice, and buffing institutions by vibing with chill and inclusive squads, slapping down justice for all the homies, and building alpha, accountable, and inclusive teams at all ranks. It’s mainly tryna reduce violence, end child exploit and abuse, combat corruption, and stop the sus arms trade. That's so skibidy toilet yk!!!!!!!

SDG 17

"Iran's got that 2030 Agenda on lock, it's a whole sigma vibe, no cap, for real."

pt 2 Iran, as a UN giga chad, has pledged to vibe check the "Transforming our World: The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development". It's syncing its national rizz moves, like the 6th and 7th Five-Year Edge Plans, and a specific "National Education Rizz Act" with this skibi framework.

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