Contests
Talent Show
Every year Oregon Model United Nations has a talent show on Thursday night. You may sing, dance, play an instrument, perform comedy, Yo-Yo tricks…You name it. You can perform individually or in groups. The only restrictions are that you must attend the talent show tryouts earlier in the evening, and you must keep your performance family-friendly. Each act should be 3 to 5 minutes long. No acts longer then 5 minutes will be allowed. There are a limited amount of timeslots for acts, but we try to accommodate as many as possible. The acts will be judged by members of the Secretariat. The winner will be announced at the closing session and will receive a Championship Belt.
If you are interested in auditioning for the talent show go sign up here.
Mike Kraimen Award for MUN Student Of The Year
The Mike Kraimen Award is given to the Oregon MUN Student of the Year. It is a special award for students. Students are nominated by their advisor involved in the Oregon MUN program. The criteria for this award are:
Criteria:
Nominations must be made by an advisor.
Award is for a student who has shown great leadership in supporting your local MUN chapter and/or performed exemplary service in furtherance of MUN and the objectives of MUN.
The winner will be announced at the Closing Session
To nominate a student for the Mike Kraimen award click here.
Chris Allen Award
The Chris Allen Award is a special award for adults. The adults are nominated by students involved in the program.
There are 3 criteria for the award.
The nominee must be an adult, but not necessarily a student advisor.
The award is based on service to an individual club or the model as a whole.
Selection of recipient is made by the student secretariat
The winner will be announced at the Closing Session.
To nominate someone for the Chris Allen Award click here.
Nametag Competition
Every year we hold a nametag competition for delegates. The requirements are simple. Each nametag must contain the following: school name, committee, country, and delegate name. Please bring an extra nametag to OPI by dinner on Friday night. The winning school gets a first-round country choice.
Let us know your are entering and additional information here.
Oregon MUN Poet Laureate
This is an opportunity to write an original poem related to International Social, Environmental, or Economic Justice and share it at the closing general session of the conference.
Click here to enter your poem.
Big Five Bids
The Big Five Bid Process will begin at 8:30pm Friday night. If your school wants to represent a Big Five country next year (China, France, Russia, the United States, or the United Kingdom). You will need to send a group of representatives to make a bid to do so. A group of advisors will be judging each bid and will make the selections. The winners will be announced at the Closing Session on Saturday morning.
To represent a Big Five country your school needs to guarantee that you will have enough delegates to place at least one delegate in each committee, and possibly 2. It is possible for 2 schools to put forth a bid and work together to represent a Big Five country.
Speaker Awards
Each committee will vote on 2 separate speaker awards at the last committee session on Friday night. The awards are: Best Country Representative, and Best Consensus Builder.
The winners of each award will receive a medal at the closing session. In addition each winner’s school name will be put into a drawing. 2 winners will be drawn, and those schools will receive a first-round country choice.
Crisis Sim Award
Starting Saturday morning, each committee will work on a resolution to help resolve a crisis with global implications. Crisis information will be distributed that morning. The Committee Chairs will discuss amongst themselves and select 2 delegates from their committee that they believe worked the best towards a resolution for the crisis. Those names go into a drawing and 2 names will be drawn. The winners will be announced at the closing session. The winner’s schools will receive a first-round country choice.
Oregon MUN College Announcements
Seniors, let us know what college you are planning to attend in the Fall so we can celebrate you.