join us at nmunc 

Affordability (registration starts at $20, NO extra delegation fees, generous financial aid—100% of NMUNC VI registrants who demonstrated financial need successfully received aid)

Location (2 minute walk from Caltrain)

Chairs

One of the only conferences in California where all of the committees are chaired by 3 people.

Feedback is non-repetitive, actionable, often objective, and abundant (multiple opportunities to discuss, email after conference if more feedback is wanted). Position paper feedback is composed of three different types of feedback: an overall assessment, in-line comments, and a rubric.

Our chairs are extremely experienced

• All of our chairs have competed in at least three conferences before, from national conferences to regional.

• At least one of the chairs per committee will have chaired at NMUNC before, with several having chaired at other regional conferences too. Multiple committees will also have several veteran chairs

• All will have gone through multiple chairing workshops on background guide writing, delegate evaluation (position papers and in-committee performance), parliamentary procedure refreshers, committee type-specific content

Quality of Material and Resources

Topics are thoroughly vetted to ensure clash and multiple veins of subtopics

Chairs are selected in the late spring, background guide drafting is started in the summer, reviewing (3+ rounds of edits by chairs and secretariat) in the fall, and publishing during early winter. In total, the process is a 8 month long intensive in which chairs are constantly supported to ensure committee is run smoothly on conference day

Only conference in California to offer update papers when appropriate. Update papers are short briefs that expand upon recent updates in a committee’s topic, helping keep a topic current.

MUN wiki and resource bank is constantly being updated, and has enormous amounts of information on being a delegate and preparation. It comes in three different formats: a comprehensive 50,000 word manuscript, a set of eight slides, and video recordings of training workshop (coming soon)

We host training workshops before the conference that help first time delegates understand the basic but also provide tips and strategies for more experienced ones.

Crisis

The JCCs (joint-crisis-committtees) are back! Before the last few years, in which we held traditional committees in a smaller setting, we were a JCC conference. In fact, our inaugural conference was a set of 7 JCCs in which crisis directives and notes are interwoven between different teams across all of the different committees. Unsurprisingly, crisis committees are extremely dear to Nueva as a whole.

Our backroom is very heavily manned. At conferences, even collegiate ones, backrooms are just the chairs or one random staffer. This is not the case at Nueva, last year, we had 5 crisis staffers per crisis committee (in addition to the three chairs), which ensured that every crisis note was considered. 

We will be collaborating with Nueva’s theatre groups and actors to create immersive yet complex portrayals of crisis updates, building and buying props and sets.

We believe that crisis committee management is an art: unreasonable/illogical/unoriginal crisis notes and directives will be firmly rejected. This is to ensure that crisis notes are thoughtful and crisis arcs are carefully maintained. We highly smile upon imaginative/creative/well-researched notes; after all, we highly value informed tomfoolery and organized chaos