Diplomats wanted this weekend!

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Dear <<First Name>>,

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

The Second Semester HSMUN session will be held in Winifred Moore Auditorium, accessible through Webster University's Main Hall.

Civitas is excited to offer another High School Model UN session this Saturday, March 1. To accommodate more students and more resolutions, the session will be from 9:00 am until 1:00 pm. Plenty of snacks will be available! We will meet in the much larger venue, the Winifred Moore Auditorium, still on Webster University's campus inside the Main Hall at 470 East Lockwood, 63119. Parking is plentiful across the street, along Lockwood, and behind the building off Plymouth Blvd (MAP).

All resolutions are due by midnight tonight! If you submitted a resolution in the fall that was not discussed, it will have priority on the list. However, please review it/revise it and resubmit it to Stephanie via email by midnight tonight.

Some important reminders and points to know:

Students should represent the same countries they had in the fall or another country your school drafted in the fall.
New students are welcome. If your school did not draft countries in the fall, contact Stephanie (gavinstephanie89@gmail.com ) for a country list.
There will most likely be some duplicate country delegations. We will have separate voting placards for duplicates.
New resolutions are welcomed and encouraged.
A few resolutions will be facilitated by students at this session. If you are a student facilitator, you received an email with more info last week.

Click here to sign up for the March 1 session.

Click here to see resolutions as they are submitted.

Civ Students Star at League of Women Voters TRIVIA

A Dozen, that's how many Civitas students we had at last Saturday night's League of Women Voters of STL Trivia night. Nine were at one table, meaning that they were cheating. That was the faculty advisor's fault. Other students helped Table #6 finish second, just ahead of the third-place 'all-Civ' table. Thanks to all the terrific students and to the League for being so hospitable. And lest we forget, thanks to all the students who worked on the Feb. 22 issue of the Civitas Examiner and who distributed them to the Trivia players.

Special prize to anyone who can find any healthy food on the tables!

Paid Summer Internship and GameChanger Points

Civitas was first all Model UN, nothing but Model UN. Our Model UN programs are stronger than ever now, but civic engagement and active citizenship are central to our high school programs. During the summer, we sponsor paid internships in which students study about and act upon issues that are front and center in our country, and the world. Last summer we did Campaign '24. This summer our focus will be on journalism. We will ask student journalists to cover stories by actually going about the St. Louis metropolitan area, or on to the internet to cover them. If there is a fire of suspicious origin in our metropolitan area, we'll get the story and bring it to you with photos. If something fishy is going on in Washington, DC, we'll work to arrange a Zoom with one of the many contacts that we have.

To apply for the summer internship, you need to accumulate approximately six or more GameChanger points. How do you get points? Mainly by attending Civitas events, but also by writing for the Examiner, writing for our blog, or 'recruiting' more students from your school or elsewhere to attend Civitas events. We still have several opportunities for earning GameChanger points by attending next week's Zoom discussion, signing up for the League of Women Voter's trivia, and participating in Model UN at Webster University on March 1.

This local contest sponsored by St. Louis Public Radio, is an exciting opportunity for high school students who love photography and/or journalism! Click here for more information.

Are you a rising sophomore, junior, or senior, looking for an early summer opportunity? Consider applying to the STL Changemakers Program!
Click here to apply. Registration closes on March 10.

Calendar

Saturday, February 1, 2025-March 10, 2025
STL Changemakers application window.
Click here to apply.
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Saturday, March 1, 2025, 9:00 am until 1:00 pm at Webster University in Winifred Moore Auditorium, located in the Main Hall of Webster University (MAP)
Model UN Session
Click here to sign up
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Wednesday, April 2, 2025, 7:00 pm until 8:00 pm from the comfort of your home.
Issues Roundtable Discussion Group
Click here to sign up

Picture of the Week

In this imIn this image taken from video, passengers walk away from a Delta Air Lines jet that crash-landed at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday, February 17. -- Peter Koukov/Handout/Reuters

It was a terrifying scene Monday when a passenger plane crashed, turned upside down and caught fire while attempting to land at Toronto Pearson International Airport.

But all 80 people on the plane survived. Twenty-one of them were taken to hospitals with injuries, officials said, and by Thursday morning all had been released, according to Delta Air Lines.

The crash happened on a gusty day following heavy snowfall. On Tuesday afternoon, a senior investigator with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada said it was “far too early to say what the cause of this accident might be.”

The harrowing incident briefly halted traffic at Canada’s busiest airport, and it was the fourth major aviation accident in North America in the past month. It happened three weeks after an American Airlines plane collided midair with a US Army helicopter in Washington, DC, killing all 67 people aboard.

This past week at the United Nations