From 2020 to 2022 I was president of the Montgomery County Model UN team. It sounds like résumé filler. It’s the training I use most.
Model UN teaches three things agencies get paid for: speaking to a skeptical room off five minutes of prep; writing position papers — which is to say, turning a mess of facts into one defensible argument (every PR pitch is a position paper); and coalition math — knowing that resolutions pass in the hallway, not at the podium, which is exactly how campus distribution works too.
If you’re a student reading this: the clubs where you argue, organize and recruit are pre-professional training that the “practical” clubs can’t match. We hire from them deliberately.