The Loomis Chaffee Model UN team hosted its third annual LooMUN conference on April 29, 2025. It was the culmination of several months of hard work by Loomis students and aimed to engage with global affairs, collaborate with peers from other schools, and dive into current events.
“We started planning for this conference a while ago, around October…it’s been seven months of solid planning,” said Aanum Khan ’26, one of the leaders of the conference. “Throughout the long duration of preparation, the secretariat group gathered and distributed their roles. I was in charge of the operations aspect, which is just like actual planning of the event, scheduling, making sure we have rooms where everyone has a place to go.”
Khan managed larger-scale preparations, such as reserving and re-ordering rooms and recruiting participants from other schools, as well as small details, like designing awards and placards.
Many aspects of the conference have made it especially unique compared to college conferences that Loomis delegates attend. Acknowledging that many delegates participating are new to Model UN, the chairs explained many Model-UN-specific concepts as the committees proceeded.
“[We were] being sure that they [delegates] are ready to learn and teach them throughout the conference because I know a lot of conferences just jump right in,” Aanum noted. “We had feedback sessions, just to make sure everyone was on the right page.”
Providing direct feedback to delegates between committee sessions was only one of the many highlights of LooMUN. The size of the conference itself, for one, increased dramatically. Last year, the conference had 60 delegates in total; this year, there was over a 100-person increase in attendance.
One of the General Assembly committees, the Committee for Sustainable Technological Development, focused on ‘the implications of AI on society in developing countries, especially on the healthcare sector,’ Eli Krasnoff ’25, one of its chairs and a head delegate for the Loomis Model UN team, said.
“During a few speeches, [I noted that the delegates of Egypt and Brazil] were very well researched in terms of what actual principles should be applied to this topic, and then [they] grounded that in [their] own country’s policy,” Krasnoff said, recalling an impressive moment in his committee.
In fact, he claimed that one of his highlights during committee time was noticing new delegates implementing their understanding of their own country to move the discussion forward.
“I would recommend [delegates do] as much research as possible beforehand because [they] just can’t have a productive debate unless [they] know what [they] are talking about,” Krasnoff said.
Risa Zhou ’28, a delegate in the Space Race specialized committee, claimed ‘[her] main goal was to [remain] calm where people can explore and push society forward.’
“I did this to establish American superiority in space,” she said. “I’d like to shout out [the] backroom staff because every single time we had a crisis update, they would come in and act out a scene.”
The conference was organized by Secretary General Katelyn Kim ’25, Director General Shane Lischin ’26, and Under Secretary Generals Aanum Khan ’26, Lilly Oslin ’26, and Michaela Howe ’25
From the secretariats to the committee chairs to the backroom staff, each member of the LooMUN III team dedicated immense effort into creating another successful iteration of LC’s rapidly developing conference.
