COVID-19

This page will contain all updates, from newest to oldest, about our work and plans for Northwest Model United Nations - High School (NWMUN-HS) with relation to COVID-19 (the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, also known as "novel coronavirus"). This page will also have some general information on the disease as it relates to our planning; we encourage all readers to seek out other sources of information on the disease broadly. If you have any questions, please contact the Secretary-General. 

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December 1, 2020
Registration for NWMUN-HS 2021 is now open!

NWMUN-HS is announcing a new and unique refund policy for the 2021 conference as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • In the event the conference needs to be canceled (which at present is not planned or even likely, but may occur due to legal requirements, venue closures, or an organizational assessment of the safety and health of our attendees and volunteers), all payments made to NWMUN-HS 2021 will be refunded in full.

  • In the event the conference needs to be rescheduled (which at present is not planned or even likely, but may occur due to legal requirements, venue closures, or an organizational assessment of the safety and health of our attendees and volunteers), all schools will be offered the option of maintaining their registration for the new dates, or receiving a full refund.
Additionally, NWMUN-HS is announcing a new addition to our country assignment policy in recognition of the cancellation of earlier spring high school Model United Nations conferences which are normally attended by some of our delegations and which those delegations may have registered for in 2020 prior to their cancellation due to COVID-19.
  • 5) NWMUN will strive to ensure that delegations who registered for Washington State Model United Nations (WASMUN) 2020 or Oregon Model United Nations (OMUN) 2020, prior to the two conferences being cancelled, are able to register for some (though likely not all) of the same countries they would have represented at those conferences for NWMUN-HS 2020.
We would also like to express our support of the volunteers who worked to create these and other conferences which have subsequently been canceled, and of the participants and advisers who prepared their teams for those conferences. Our organization's statement is available on Facebook.


November 23, 2020
On September 1, our conference's parent nonprofit, the Northwest Association for Global Affairs, decided that NWMUN-High School would launch in May 2021 (rather than in 2020). This decision allows us to prepare for NWMUN-HS 2021 with knowledge of how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected K-12 schooling in the Portland area and broader Pacific Northwest from the start. At this time, we intend to run our first-ever conference on May 22, 2021, completely online through a web platform. We will announce the web platform and details shortly on our dedicated page.

Registration will be opening on December 1.


November 1, 2020

We will be assessing the legal and health implications of our event on a regular basis and posting updates to this page as to any potential alterations to the conference plans as they arise.