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{{Infobox Organization , name = Yale Model Congress , image = , image_border = , size = , caption = , abbreviation = YMC , formation = 1993 , type =
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, headquarters = , location = Yale University, New Haven, CT , language = English , leader_title = President , leader_name = Henry Carroll , leader_name2 = Catherine Cheung , leader_title2 = Vice President , leader_title3 = Director of Delegations , leader_name3 = Grace Bu , leader_title4 = Director of Operations , leader_name4 = Jerry Shan , leader_title5 = Treasurer , leader_name5 = Lina Xing (CC '17) , leader_title6 = Director of Legislation , leader_name6 = Lauren Ribordy (SM '19) and Vicky Liu (PC '19) , leader_title7 = Chief of Staff , leader_name7 = Rita Wang (MC '19) , leader_title8 = Supreme Court Coordinator , leader_name8 = Fish Stark (JE '17) , leader_title9 = Presidential Cabinet Coordinator , leader_name9 = Layla Treuhaft-Ali (CC '17) , leader_title12 = Director of New Haven Schools , leader_name12 = Sarah Rose (JE '17) , leader_title13 = Cabinet Secretary , leader_name13 = Brian Kitano (BR '19) , main_organ = , affiliations = , num_staff = Yale Model Congress (YMC) is an entirely student-run
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association. Founded in 1993, it is the second oldest conference of its kind in the Ivy League, after Harvard Model Congress, which was founded in 1986. Every year, it brings hundreds of delegates to
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Conference Information

Founded in 1993 by members of the
Yale Political Union The Yale Political Union (YPU) is a debate society at Yale University, founded in 1934 by Alfred Whitney Griswold. It was modeled on the Cambridge Union and Oxford Union and the party system of the defunct Yale Unions of the late nineteenth and ...
, Yale Model Congress is an annual, four-day-long event, now held in early December. During the conference, high school delegates participate in one of approximately thirty committees, chaired by Yale undergraduates. The delegates prepare bills prior to the conference, and each student is given the chance to debate his or her bill using a parliamentary system modeled off
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. Each committee has between fifteen and twenty-five delegates, making YMC the most personal of the college Model Congress conferences. Bills that pass through committee are eligible to be debated in one of six full sessions, which meet throughout the conference. Each full session is composed of five to six committees, and any delegate may move to consider any bill that passed through one of those committees. Debate in full sessions is somewhat more formal; rather than speaking around a seminar table in committee, delegates approach a podium to speak in full session. Awards are given to exceptional delegates, both at the committee and at the full session levels. In addition to regular committees, Yale Model Congress also offers special programs, differently run committees for advanced delegates. In the past, special programs have included simulations of the
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, where students debate the constitutionality of passed legislation, and the Presidential Cabinet, where delegates respond to crises and advise the president on which bills to sign or veto. Sessions are held in Yale classrooms, as well as in the Omni New Haven Hotel. Except for a few local schools, delegations spend the weekend staying at the Omni or the nearby New Haven Hotel. Outside of committee, YMC offers students opportunities to visit Yale and New Haven, as well as hosting Yale Day, where students hear from Yale professors such as
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. On Saturday evening, YMC also hosts a delegate dance and a trivia night for participating students.


Governance

Yale Model Congress is led by a president, a Yale undergraduate who is elected every spring. The president then appoints his or her Cabinet, which includes positions such as the director of legislation (responsible for compiling the delegates’ bills), the director of special programs, the director of operations (responsible for managing conference operations, security, and hotel contracts), and the director of New Haven Programs (responsible for outreach to New Haven public schools). Committee chairs are selected every fall from a pool of interested Yale students. Yale Model Congress is a
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non-profit organization.


Intercollegiate competition

Penn Model Congress hosted the first Intercollegiate Model Congress competition in the United States from November 6 to 7, 2010. Members of the Yale Model Congress delegation won three of the five committees at the conference, thereby securing the first national championship in Intercollegiate Model Congress for
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. This does not account for individual awards.


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External links


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