Schools Newsletter – October 2024

Welcome back to school!  We hope you enjoyed a lovely summer.  With the new academic year now underway, we’re excited to announce our 2024-25 Polar Aspect Model Arctic Council (MAC) conferences for schools.  Registration is now open for: Wycombe Model Arctic Council 4 — 17-18 January 2025 Model Arctic Council Bilbao 7 — 30 January – 2 …

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Panel discussion at Arctic Congress Bodø 2024

Yesterday, I participated in a panel discussion on ‘Circumpolar Education for Environmental Change and Resilience’, moderated by Maeva Gauthier of the University of Victoria.  The discussion was the first step in a project, led by Jeff Birchall of the University of Alberta, to design a locally-centered and student-focused education programme on environmental change and resilience.  …

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Model Arctic Council London

This past weekend saw the launch of the newest Polar Aspect Model Arctic Council programme: Model Arctic Council London (MAC London) at Alleyn’s School! It was exciting to welcome 17 pupils from 8 schools in France and the UK to the first-ever MAC London.  The conference took place alongside Alleyn’s School’s first International Model United …

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Model Arctic Council Bilbao 6

The weather in lovely Bilbao, Spain, was beautiful this year for the sixth Model Arctic Council Bilbao (MAC Bilbao) at Colegio Ayalde this weekend.  Quite a contrast from the MAC Bilbao 5 conference last year, when it seemed to pour almost continually! An auspicious start, then, to this year’s conference, which took place this past …

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Wycombe Model Arctic Council 4

Always a pleasure to start our annual series of Polar Aspect MACs by returning to Wycombe Abbey for the Wycombe Model Arctic Council (WYCOMAC) — with this past weekend’s conference our fourth WYCOMAC since launching the programme in 2020. As with the WYCOMAC 3 conference last year, WYCOMAC 4 was an intimate simulation set in …

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