Yesterday, I ran my fifth online ‘mini’ Model Arctic Council (MAC) for students at Trent University, as well as students from other universities and countries studying online with Trent through the UArctic Circumpolar Studies programme.  Like my previous mini-MACs, which students seem to have found enjoyable and educational, the online simulation was the capstone project of a course in Trent’s innovative online Circumpolar Studies Diploma programme.  And once again, the participating students were taking my own special course on the political geography of the Arctic, entitled ‘GEOG 2811 The International North and the Arctic Council’.  My Trent colleague Prof Heather Nicol was the course instructor, and I’m grateful to her for inviting me to run the mini-MAC again. These online mini-MACs offer a course-based complement to my full, multi-day online and in-person MACs for universities and schools.  I hope some of the students participating in the mini-MAC will be inspired to join one in person!