By Alex Wyckoff
Staff Writer
Mira Costa’s Model United Nations team won Best Large Delegation during the week of March 3 at two separate conferences in New York City and University of California, Berkeley.
These were the final conferences of the school year for the advanced team.
“I believe our MUN program is unique in that we can compete at such a high level,” MUN Advisor Wayne Knutson said.
As part of school-wide teacher protests in response to negotiations within the district, the program will not be holding tryouts for incoming sophomores and juniors, nor interviews for next year’s secretariat. Costa MUN will instead be focusing on planning ahead for the 2014-15 school year’s conferences and using in- class debates for tryouts.
“Timberlake and Knutson have been able to cleverly adapt to the situation,” junior Maggie Hackney said. “By using in-class debates as an opportunity for sophomores to prove themselves, it is an effective system.”
According to MUN students, they feel that the future of the program looks bright and are hopeful for the next few school years.
“We had a very underclassmen-heavy team at New York,” junior Bram Osterhout said. “It was encouraging to see us perform well. It indicates promise for the future of the Costa MUN team.”
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