The World Summit is an annual event for the freshman class, where students are selected to represent a country and deal with international affairs. This year, the freshman class attempted to find solutions to the refugee crisis occurring in various countries. Students work with their classmates on the project.
While the World Summit has no official judges, teachers grade students based on how well they did in the work leading up to the Summit and supervise the conversations happening at the World Summit. Students are assessed on how well they can solve problems or defend themselves against other countries.
Students were put into groups and assigned a country. After being assigned the country, they researched the country’s political, social, and economic situation and culture. Every year, students have a topic they focus on. Each country must meet with two other countries to find a possible solution to share their different point of view.
“There was a lot of research and most of what we talked about was the population and the financial situation of the countries,” freshman Justin Martinez told The Prowl.
The main goal of this project is to get students to work on their communication and debating skills to show their different perspectives, understanding of those situations, and the cultural differences, and backgrounds of the countries.
“One of my biggest takeaways was how countries delegate and how countries deal with things. This is an important lesson to learn as in the world when we start to move up in life it’s important to realize what countries are doing and why they are doing it,” freshman Varaj Agarwal explained.
The country’s representatives are not expected to agree, but they are expected to start a discussion and use the evidence from their research to back up their arguments.
After the first and second rounds of meetings, students have the opportunity to take the podium and share their final thoughts with their peers. Students are also able to recap their discussions and the different perspectives they may have adapted from their discussions.
