Gateway Model UN

John Burroughs School, in coordination with the Greater St. Louis Chapter of the United Nations Organizations and Civitas Associates, participates in a middle school program with eighteen other schools-public, private, and parochial. This program promotes an understanding of the operations and mission of the United Nations by drafting resolutions, researching countries and their concerns, and voting on sample resolutions. The activity for lower school students beings in November, and entails a series of seven to nine Friday after school sessions. Country delegation are assigned in December, and each country must draft a resolution, in order to qualify for participation in the General Assembly in April. This culminating activity is a simulation, which involves participants from three to five other schools, in which students engage in role-playing, caucus, formal presentation, and lobbying activities. This program provides important fundamental skills, which many students apply in the upper school Model UN programs