Awards

The core focus of SMUNC is to foster productive debate on meaningful topics, encourage collaboration between delegates, and build strong leadership skills in high school students. We hope that all delegates will learn new skills and take away great memories from the weekend-long conference.

The awards we offer are given to delegates who demonstrate exceptional ability in their respective committees throughout the conference. Specifically, we look to research, speaking, writing, creativity, leadership, and diplomacy as key pillars of success. Although we are excited to honor delegates who excel in these categories, it is important to remember that the number of awards is limited.

Not earning an award has no bearing on the amount of learning and growth that happens throughout the weekend, and certainly will not affect your chances of acceptance to Stanford University.

We encourage you to be proud of the work you and every delegate put into the conference, regardless of the award results!

Award Distributions

Award distribution is designed to result in a roughly equal percent of each committee winning awards.

General Assemblies, UNCTAD, and African Union

1 - Best Delegate

3 - Outstanding Delegate

5 - Honorable Mentions

1 - Research