On Apr. 4, Huron’s Model United Nation (MUN) club travelled to Oakland University in Rochester, MI to attend the Oakland University Model UN (OUMUN) two-day conference, representing Huron at the annual conference for the first time. 

At Model UN conferences, students are each assigned a country and simulate United Nations committee conferences. Huron’s MUN club activities ground to a halt in 2020 due to Covid-19, until senior Aashna Nadarajah restarted it at the beginning of the 2022-23 school year. Its current co-presidents are juniors Satvika Ramanathan and Tejasvi Ramanathan. 

Ten Huron students attended the OUMUN conference, and four were awarded Excellent Awards: freshman Helena Levchenko as India in the International Labor Organization committee, junior Jessica Wu as Sweden in the European Union Committee, junior Tejasvi Ramanahan as India in Crisis in Antarctica, and junior Elena Franzese as Ethiopia in Crisis in Antarctica. 

The Crisis event is a higher-level event in which students are given a crisis scenario that they must deal with as they’re given updates throughout the discussion. 

“It was good to see everybody push themselves and go outside of their comfort zone,” Satvika Ramanathan said.

OUMUN is one of the first multi-day conferences Huron’s Model UN club has competed in, so it was an exciting experience for the club. 

“We had a lot of fun,” Satvika Ramanathan said. “It was a good team bonding experience. We’re really proud of everybody.”