At Pathways Noida, students get multiple forums to express themselves creatively be it through our founders or our MUN conferences. The PSNMUN was a middle school conference for grades 7 to 10 and the topic of the MUN this year was the Seven Revolutions, which comprised of discussing changes brought by these revolutions. As common belief follows, a MUN is considered to be a formal, academic and research-based debate simulation, however, we as the Secretariat were not satisfied with this. We delved deeper into the meaning of what it meant to host a MUN and understood what it really stands for. We focussed on finding solutions to problems that were being discussed in the committees and are global issues in today's world. Our first aim was to conduct an eco-friendly conference and to implement this, we decided to reduce as much plastic usage as possible by handing out metal water bottles to delegates in place of plastic bottles. All the material used for posters was reused, and finally, a tree plantation drive was carried out wherein every 10 likes accounted for 1 tree. The Secretariat set a target for a 100 trees and it gives us great pleasure to say that we did achieve that target and planted 100 trees in a municipal school in West Delhi, in collaboration with Sankalptaru, a tree plantation organization. Our second focus was to generate resources for the less fortunate and to implement that, we initiated a book drive in collaboration with ‘Katha’ ,a book donating organization and urged all the students and delegates to support us by donating their old books. After the successful conclusion of the PSNMUN, as we sat down to ponder over the days leading up to the success, the entire Secretariat and the teachers realized that it was extremely challenging to organize an event like this, however, we were extremely proud as to how the event shaped out and developed a newfound respect for every student or teacher involved in the making of the event. The PSNMUN was an unforgettable experience, filled with invaluable memories and learnings, and all in all, it taught us things that no classroom could ever teach. We look forward to the next Pathways Noida MUN and hope that it turns out to be as impressionable and simply amazing as PSNMUN 2019 was.
Annanya Guha & Gautam Narang Grade 11