Holiday

A week off for a holiday means work has piled and not only that, but I'm falling behind with the deadlines I've set myself! This means that blog posts will be a bit slower and a bit shorter as I catch up with the work I've missed.

However, I have started an EPQ planning-book to jot down any notes I can think of whilst I'm out and about and suddenly have a brain-wave!

Work for this week will focus on the creation of a survey to asses how much delegates know about Model United Nations and possibly the UN itself before they attend my conference.

Wish me luck.

And thus, the research begins:

By the end of this week, I hope to have sorted:

- How the day will work on the whole

- Timings

- Find an overall aim for the day that can easily be evaluated once complete.

Also, if you weren't aware, the blog is now translatable into various languages by using the google translate bar.

The translate bar^^

Date approved!

Also, a date for my conference/EPQ has been approved finally! It will be on the 16th October 2013, so watch this space...

Trial Run One:

So if you've been following my blog (which I know a few of you have), you'll know that recently I ran a mini-MUN conference for year 10 students from around the area. - Obviously I had a lot of help running this conference and it would be rude of me to not acknowledge the amazing work that they did, so thank you all -

- not so sure about the photographer though.... -

 So, how does this fit in with my EPQ? 

Well, by running the day I've learnt a lot about how to fine tune the planning for my EPQ:
- Get enough people to help you set up all the tables!
 - Chairs need to keep on top of all the debates and make sure that all delegates speak;
 - A clear plan is needed when debate becomes slow or boring;
- Instructions to delegates need to be as clear as possible.

 But, what I found most useful from the day wasn't actually running the conference from behind the scenes, it was more about trying to speak to most of the delegates to make sure they were confident with how they were running.

 Having spoken to a lot of the delegates at the start of the conference, it was clear to me that many of them were low in confidence as they were unsure of what to do/say during the conference.

The idea of knowing what to say and knowing enough about your country is something that I'm going to have to work into the planning of my conference quite early on.

Overall though, a really fun day and definitely a very worthwhile experience.

(The clear-up's never great though....)