Taiwan Model United Nations
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Taiwan Model United Nations (TAIMUN) is an annual two-day conference of Model United Nations held annually at the American School in Taichung in mid-April. From its humble beginnings as a one-school conference in 2003, it has since grown to nine schools from three countries.
[edit] TAIMUN Milestones
- 2003 – Lincoln American School director Irwin Stein founds TAIMUN, the latest in a long string of global MUN conferences he has set up.
- 2004 – TAIMUN Times, the official newspaper of the conference, is born.
- 2005 – TAIMUN becomes an international conference for the first time as Northridge International School of Cambodia makes the trip.
- 2006 – TAIMUN includes a school that does not use English as its primary medium of instruction as Municipal Hui Wen Senior High School from Taichung City joins the conference.
- 2007 – TAIMUN is scheduled to expand to a four-committee conference for the first time.