More than 200 schools from across the country are participating in a three-day conference, WORDZMUN, at the Confederation of Indian Industries. This is the first time that the city is hosting the programme.

Atin Batra, Secretary General, WORDZ says: “WORDZ has mostly been held in cities like Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai. We wanted to expose students of Chandigarh and nearby areas to this concept. Thus, we have invited schools from towns like Nabha, Hisar, Ambala to participate in the programme.”

In the programme, students representing different countries discuss globally relevant issues like prevention of outer space arms race, nuclear waste management, strengthening of women and children rights, unrest in Darfur, among others.

“Students from small cities will get a great amount of exposure at WORDZ, which will help refine their public speaking skills. The reason that we have students representing countries rather than themselves, is that, through this, they learn to look at a particular problem from another’s perspective. Though it is difficult to remove personal biases, WORDZ is worth a try,” said Ashmita, Vice-President, WORDZ.

The three-day conference, concluded at a function held at St Stephen’s School today. Dr BC Gupta, Principal Secretary (Home), Punjab, was the chief guest on the occasion.

The three-day conference saw the participation of more than 20 teams, where students discussed issues of global importance. While the best delegation award went to the team from GD Goenka Public School, the students from Delhi Public School, RK Puram, received the maximum number of prizes.

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