Who is this camp designed for?

The program is pitched at the high-school level and hosted in Boulder, Colorado, making it most relevant to secondary students seeking intensive MUN training in a North American university setting.

Is this a conference or a training program?

The format is a summer camp rather than a competitive conference, meaning the focus is skills instruction on the CU Boulder campus rather than awards-based committee simulation.

How large is the delegate cohort?

The expected delegate count is small, which supports a coaching-intensive model where instructors in Boulder can give individualized feedback rather than running mass-scale committees.

What should delegates bring to maximize the experience?

Delegates attending the high-school-level program in Boulder should arrive with draft position papers, target committee types, and specific skill gaps they want instructors to address.

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MUN Summer Camp @ University of Colorado Boulder

Name: MUN Summer Camp @ University of Colorado Boulder
Start: 2026-07-13T00:00:00Z
End: 2026-07-23T00:00:00Z
Location: Boulder, Colorado

Boulder, Colorado, United States of America · high-school

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Dates: Jul 13–2026 (day: 23)
Fee: $2,490
Reg deadline: TBD
Delegates: 50
Language: English
Format: In-person

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Summary

The MUN Summer Camp at the University of Colorado Boulder is a high school-level residential training program that brings together a small cohort of delegates for an intensive multi-day immersion in Model UN practice. Hosted on a major American research campus in the Mountain West, the camp positions itself as a skills-building bootcamp rather than a competitive conference, with curriculum that typically blends caucus drills, resolution drafting, public speaking, and parliamentary procedure. For families and advisors weighing summer enrichment options, the program reads as a North American training pipeline aimed at students who want to enter the next school year with sharper substantive command and more confident floor presence. The intimate delegate count signals a coaching-heavy model rather than a large-scale simulation.

Why this edition matters in 2026

Summer training camps occupy a distinct slot in the MUN ecosystem. Unlike weekend conferences that test delegates against peers, a residential camp at a university like CU Boulder is designed to build the underlying competencies - research method, negotiation behavior, drafting craft - that determine performance across an entire season. The small expected cohort suggests the program is calibrated for direct instructor feedback rather than spectacle. The Boulder location also carries signaling weight. American university campuses serve as informal credentialing venues for high school delegates, and a summer spent on one offers exposure to collegiate-style debate norms that increasingly shape how top circuits judge speeches and working papers. For delegates from outside the United States, the camp doubles as an English-immersion environment. At this price point, the camp is positioned as a premium investment. That places it in competition with other elite North American summer programs, and advisors should evaluate it against the specific pedagogical outcomes a delegate needs - whether that is THIMUN-style consensus drafting, Harvard-style crisis improvisation, or fundamentals for a delegate still learning the rules of procedure.

How to prepare

Delegates arriving in Boulder should treat the camp as a laboratory rather than a tournament. The highest return comes from using the small cohort to rehearse the parts of MUN that are hard to practice alone: moderated caucus interventions under time pressure, unmoderated bloc-building when the room is fragmented, and the iterative redrafting of operative clauses after substantive critique. Before arrival, students benefit from picking two or three committee types they want to stress-test - a large GA body, a specialized agency like ECOSOC or WHO, and a crisis or historical committee - and bringing real background research on a live agenda item for each. Instructors in a camp setting can give far more useful feedback when a delegate shows up with a position paper draft and specific weaknesses they want to attack. The post-camp window matters as much as the camp itself. Delegates who leave Boulder with a personal playbook - templates for opening speeches, a stable note-passing rhythm, a checklist for amendment strategy - convert summer training into fall results. Advisors should plan a debrief conference within a few weeks of the camp to lock in habits while they are fresh.

Eligibility deep-dive

Level: high-school
Age: —
Team size: —
Country quota: Open

Schedule & deadlines

Conference
Jul 13, 2026 – Jul 23, 2026

Frequently asked questions

Who is this camp designed for?
The program is pitched at the high-school level and hosted in Boulder, Colorado, making it most relevant to secondary students seeking intensive MUN training in a North American university setting.
Is this a conference or a training program?
The format is a summer camp rather than a competitive conference, meaning the focus is skills instruction on the CU Boulder campus rather than awards-based committee simulation.
How large is the delegate cohort?
The expected delegate count is small, which supports a coaching-intensive model where instructors in Boulder can give individualized feedback rather than running mass-scale committees.
What should delegates bring to maximize the experience?
Delegates attending the high-school-level program in Boulder should arrive with draft position papers, target committee types, and specific skill gaps they want instructors to address.

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