Hi delegates, only one more week until BMUN LXVI!! I hope you are all as excited as I am for conference to begin this Friday. With this in mind, I wanted to give a quick update regarding various BMUN policies, and the technology policy in particular.
BMUN has traditionally been a non-technology conference, but in recent years, changes have been made regarding this policy. This year, we will have three different types of committees in regards to technology, that have been decided by each individual committee. As you may or may not have seen on the UNESCO page, UNESCO will be a "unmod tech" committee, where technology is only allowed for the purposes of resolution writing during unmoderated caucus. We do encourage you to bring your laptops and tablets to conference if you can, but if you can't, don't worry! There will still be plenty of ways for you to be involved. With this being said however, only laptops and/or tablets will be permitted in committee - other electronic devices like cell phones are still discouraged - and only may your electronic devices be used for resolution writing; any delegate found to be doing additional research during committee session will be disqualified from committee awards, so we encourage you to print out hard copies of your research.
For an overview of our technology policy, as well as all other BMUN policies, I suggest you take a look (before conference begins) at this link here: http://www.bmun.org/conference-policies/
Regarding position papers, some of you have already received your graded work with feedback through our online portal Huxley. For those who have not, grades will be up by either today or tomorrow. If you do not see your paper by tomorrow, please email me at hdong@bmun.org, and we will figure out what happened. We suggest reviewing some of our comments to help finalize your research and prep before conference begins. Also note that when you receive your grades, don't think of it so much as a percentage. Our papers are graded on a very coarse scale, with 1-10 being the entire range. The average will probably be somewhere around in the 60s or so - this does NOT mean that it's a D grade paper; in fact, it means that you had a good start to your work, but we there may have been more material or specifics that we wanted to see.
As always, feel free to email me or any of the dais members with any questions or concerns. Our emails are: hdong@bmun.org, ofarfan@bmun.org, hmalingha@bmun.org, and afox@bmun.org. We look forward to seeing you all on Friday!
BMUN has traditionally been a non-technology conference, but in recent years, changes have been made regarding this policy. This year, we will have three different types of committees in regards to technology, that have been decided by each individual committee. As you may or may not have seen on the UNESCO page, UNESCO will be a "unmod tech" committee, where technology is only allowed for the purposes of resolution writing during unmoderated caucus. We do encourage you to bring your laptops and tablets to conference if you can, but if you can't, don't worry! There will still be plenty of ways for you to be involved. With this being said however, only laptops and/or tablets will be permitted in committee - other electronic devices like cell phones are still discouraged - and only may your electronic devices be used for resolution writing; any delegate found to be doing additional research during committee session will be disqualified from committee awards, so we encourage you to print out hard copies of your research.
For an overview of our technology policy, as well as all other BMUN policies, I suggest you take a look (before conference begins) at this link here: http://www.bmun.org/conference-policies/
Regarding position papers, some of you have already received your graded work with feedback through our online portal Huxley. For those who have not, grades will be up by either today or tomorrow. If you do not see your paper by tomorrow, please email me at hdong@bmun.org, and we will figure out what happened. We suggest reviewing some of our comments to help finalize your research and prep before conference begins. Also note that when you receive your grades, don't think of it so much as a percentage. Our papers are graded on a very coarse scale, with 1-10 being the entire range. The average will probably be somewhere around in the 60s or so - this does NOT mean that it's a D grade paper; in fact, it means that you had a good start to your work, but we there may have been more material or specifics that we wanted to see.
As always, feel free to email me or any of the dais members with any questions or concerns. Our emails are: hdong@bmun.org, ofarfan@bmun.org, hmalingha@bmun.org, and afox@bmun.org. We look forward to seeing you all on Friday!
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