GIIS East Coast held Model United Nations (MUN) conference virtually on 28th May 2020. With 77 student delegates participating in the virtual event, it was a huge success. The topic for MUN this year was COVID-19 and the measures taken to battle the spread of the dreaded coronavirus. 

Instituted to educate students about public speaking, debate, diplomacy, problem-solving, and teamwork, the MUN is an annual affair at GIIS. However, due to the pandemic, it was the first time that the event was held virtually.

Grade 7 and 8 students formed teams and gathered on Zoom to discuss on the topic.

There were 3 committees of World Health Assembly (WHA) formed, with the following Chairs and Co-Chairs:

Committee 1 - WHA 1: Muskaan Sadhnani and Maya Senthil

Committee 2 - WHA 2: Avaneesh Bansal & Anura Rathi

Committee 3 - Hybrid Crisis Committee: Parth Tiwari & Siddhant Subramanian

After a full day of intense debate and discussion within the committees, the following awards were presented to the delegates:

The participants were mentored by GIIS alumni Parth Tiwari and Muskaan Sadhnani and Grade 11 student of GIIS SMART Campus, student Abhinav Sridhar, who lent a huge helping hand in the preparations and proceedings of the MUN. Also a big round of applause for the Social Science faculty whose efforts made the virtual MUN a seamless affair. 

The virtual closing ceremony was attended by the Principal Mr CVK Sastry, who gave the vote of thanks and presented the e-certificates to the deserving students.