Thank you for coming to SWCHSMUN 2015!

I’d like to thank all of the participating schools that we had this year: Austin O’Brien High School, Bowness High School, Central Memorial High School, Foothills Academy, Forest Lawn High School, James Fowler High School, Lord Beaverbrook High School, Oilfields High School, Prairie Christian Academy, Robert Thirsk High School, Springbank Community High School, St. Peter the Apostle High School, Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School, Webber Academy, Western Canada High School, Westmount Charter, Westwood Community High School and W.H. Croxford High School. I’d like to thank the faculty advisors from all of the participating schools for being so organized at the beginning of the Model UN season to attend the conference. We had a record number of delegates attend our conference this year, with over 450 students in attendance. I’d like to thank all of the volunteers from Volunteer Churchill who acted as parliamentary pages for the entire conference. I’d like to thank all of the Secretariat who were so amazing prior to conference working extremely hard to make the conference a success. I’d like to thank Carol Zhang, Shalaka Dixit, Elizabeth Yan, Michelle Kwan, Alisia Chen, Peter Fajner, Roy Zhang, Noah Pinno, Andrew Min, Vish Sharma. All of our Secretariat also worked as Staff at our conference working as Chairs, Vice-Chairs, Rapporteurs or Crisis Directors. I’d like to thank the rest of the Staff members: Didi Moffatt, Kadie Tang, Avanti Karkhanis, Amanda Leong, Danielle Leong, Sophie Zhao, Souvik Maiti, Jack Dai, Griffins Misati, Sunand Kannappan, Lucy Kim, Laura He, Shovon Das, Oliver Zhang, Riley Baker, Sharath Sivakumar, Bojia Li, YaHeng Su, Andrew Zhao, Michael Xie, Fazeela Mulji, Michael Wu, Jayden Lee, Bohan Li, and Chris Hoang. I’d like to thank my fellow faculty advisor at Churchill, Mr. Dave MacGregor as well for helping keep everything so organized and running smoothly. We’re already planning next year’s conference, as you could see at the closing ceremonies with our movie trailer. We look forward to hosting again next year at SWCHSMUN 2016!!

Kevin Gilchrist (Model UN Faculty Advisor, Sir Winston Churchill HS)