No, training did not involve newspapers or leashes. It required a bus, a ballroom, PowerPoint, and 800+ area students ready to learn about the Model United Nations Program. Model UN attempts to recreate the General Assembly process for middle and high-school students. Between now and the session in May, students will research their countries, identify problems, and generate unique solutions, much as the General Assembly would do. Solutions will be presented as resolutions, written documents that outline the problem, statistics, solution, and funding options.

Sixth-grade inventors presented their ideas. They prepared written and visual explanations in such a way as a patent applicant would. The main constraint was that the invention should save work or time.