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General Questions
The following questions are designed to get a sense of your general experience and skills as well as your interest in YMAU. The subsequent sections will be divided by secretariat structure: Operations (logistics planning) and Programme (content planning).
List any conference or conference planning experience at Yale or elsewhere. Please clarify in detail what role you had and when this experience occurred.
Being part of the Yale Model African Union board will be a significant time commitment, especially as this is the first iteration of the conference. How will you ensure you have time for this? (Please include all your extracurricular/work commitments and how many hours you spend on them each week in list format, in addition to your summer plans if youโve decided them).
Please list any other skills you could bring to the Secretariat or relevant experience. This can include experience in teaching, event planning, graphics design, language skills and more.
Please list any other skills you could bring to the Secretariat or relevant experience. This can include experience in teaching, event planning, graphics design, language skills and more.
Why do you want to join YMAU? (100 words or less)
What experiences do you have with the African continent, and how do you see this conference embodying African leadership and Pan-African dialogue? (200 words or less)
What is education? How does a conference embody education as its goal particularly within a multilingual and multicultural context? (200 words or less)
Operational Position Questions
The operational organ is responsible for the administrative side of the conference. The list of all positions and the expectations for each role can be found below.
๐๐น๐น ๐ข๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐ฃ๐ผ๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐
Organization skills, time management, and accountability are necessary characteristics for the operations team. What experience do you have with managing or being a part of a team, organizing an event or conference, or any other experience that would translate to being on the operations team.
๐๐ ๐ข๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ผ๐ป๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ
How do you see education translate in an out-of-committee experience? Please provide specific initiatives regarding education that can be implemented before or during YMAU I. You can find examples of out of committee activities held during our high school conference at this website under the conference tab (Social Impact Challenge, Essay Contest, Global Exchange Program, Arts Challenge, etc). Please note that our conference is geared towards African college students.
๐๐ ๐ข๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ด๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐น/๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ป๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐
How do you plan to recruit enough delegates and retain them? Specifically, how can YMAU I differentiate itself from other conferences in the region or attract university students that have never done Model African Union before. Here is a list of other Model UN/Model AU conferences in the African circuit. The page may appear blank but click control A and the entire text will appear.
๐๐ ๐ข๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ธ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด
What do you envision as YMAU Iโs brand? How can this aesthetic help with recruitment and sponsorships? Please note that this will be the very first Model African Union hosted by an Ivy League institution and the first Model anything conference hosted by an American university in Africa. So feel free to get creative as this is a completely unique opportunity!
Programme Position Questions
The programme organ is responsible for the educational side of the conference. The list of all positions and the expectations for each role can be found here:
All Programme Positions
Adherence to deadlines, creativity, and people skills are necessary characteristics for the programme team. What sort of experience do you have shaping educational experiences, working in customer service, or just more generally working in a creative environment that would translate well to being on the programme team.
๐๐ ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฎ๐บ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ผ๐บ๐บ๐ถ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฒ๐
How do you envision the Model African Union simulation being structured in a way that is authentic to the organization it is modeling? What is your vision for the YMAU I committees (feel free to list examples of topics)? Here is a link to the African Union website as well as a link to the Howard University Model African Union conference that has been running for a while and could provide a run down on how they do it.
๐๐ ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฎ๐บ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐ช๐ผ๐ฟ๐ธ๐๐ต๐ผ๐ฝ
What format do you envision for the Leadership Development Workshops? These can be both skill-building workshops or more general knowledge sharing workshops. The goal for these is ultimately to encourage Pan-African dialogue and for those who attend to leave having gained something tangible. Here are some examples of workshops and speaker series that may be helpful to think about: Obama Foundation.
