ESMOAS 2025

Thr Collegiate Summit of the Americas, has been held since 1995 and is a summit and competition using the same basic style as the Model United Nations, but simulating meetings of the Organization of American States and the Summit of the Americas meetings rather than the UN General Assembly.  Before our annual conference, teams are randomly assigned a country within the Organization of American States (this essentially includes every country in the Western Hemisphere).  Team members present resolutions on pre-determined topics in various committees, all representing the interests of the country to which they were assigned.  

Head delegates (selected by each participating team) attend as the actual heads of state of each participating country.  The teams and individuals are judged by the quality of their written work, their creativity, public speaking and debate ability, grasp of parliamentary rules and procedures, and, most of all, their ability to hold to their country's agenda and real-life political position.

A separate Budgetary Committee debates funding for those resolutions that were passed in previous models.

Special sessions include a hypothetical crisis scenario, extemporaneous press conference, secret diplomatic missions, and officer confirmation hearings.