The YMCA

For Youth Development
For Healthy Living
For Social Responsibility

Leadership Opportunities

Each year, both conferences hold elections to elect students into leadership positions.

Model Assembly Leadership Opportunities:

  • Secretary of State
  • Attorney General
  • Governor/Lt. Governor
  • Director of the Lobbyists
  • Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
  • President of the Senate
  • Speaker of the House.

Model United Nations Leadership Opportunities:

  • President of the Anderson General Assembly
  • President of the Mondale General Assembly
  • President of the Economic and Social Council
  • President of the Security Council
  • President of the International Court of Justice

Appointed positions available:

  • Deputy positions
  • the Governor's cabinet
  • committee chairs
  • vice presidents 

In all, there are around 150 elected and appointed students serving over 2000 other students.

State Steering Committee

The State Steering Committee consists of three student members per delegation, across the state of Minnesota. This committee meets five times a year to determine the Election Rules, and it can make executive decisions at the conferences when there are election disputes.

YIG students at the Capitol