There are three types of individual awards that delegates may be eligible for: Best Delegate, Outstanding, and Commendation. Each committee dias, led by the Head Chair, will distribute the individual awards to delegates based on their committee performance, delegate pairs will be evaluated together. Exemplary delegates are distinguished by:

• Quality of research, as reflected in their position papers and debate;
• Quality of amendments, resolutions, and proposed solutions;
• Ability to accurately represent their nation’s interests and policies;
• Diplomacy skills in building consensus and compromising with others;
• Effectiveness in working in caucus and resolution groups;
• Persuasive skill in communicating with other delegates; and,
• Responding effectively to situations of crisis.

Thereafter, delegation awards are determined by the overall performance of its’ delegates. There are three main awards delegations may be eligible for: Best School, Best Club, and Best New School. This will be calculated based on how many awards have been received by a school or club, normalized against the total number of delegations they have registered.

This is the general policy for all committees in BMUN, regardless of its size or jurisdiction, unless explicitly stated on the individual committee’s page by the Head Chair. There may be select committees from year to year that may require delegates to do extra preparation that is to be presented in committee, such as UNHRC, the THIMUN committee for BMUN LXVI. Otherwise, there will be no exceptions.

BMUN will have three types of committees:

1. technologically inclusive committees (tech)
2. committees in which technology is only allowed for resolution writing in unmod (unmod tech), and
3. technologically exclusive committees (non-tech)

Specifically,

1. Tech committees WILL allow the use of technology for the purposes of collaborative resolution drafting ONLY. Delegates in these committees should save all research (such as their position paper, any notes, and any other references they wish to use in committee) in a single Google Doc. This will allow chairs to see the edit history on the document and verify that all research was done prior to coming to conference. Paper resolutions will still be accepted in tech committees.

2. Unmod tech committees WILL allow the use of technology for the purpose of writing and collaborating on resolutions, but strictly in unmoderated caucuses. Delegates should have all of their research in a physical form (printed or written) for them to access during all other parts of committee. This type of committee also allows for one member of a dual delegation to be using technology outside for resolution writing and another inside during the procession of committee. For example, delegates will be able to type on a laptop/tablet during unmoderated caucus, but unable to access their devices at all during moderated caucus. Specific situations will be left to the chair's discretion. In a dual delegation committee, one delegate would be allowed to use their device outside of the normal committee room while the other member of their delegation is in the committee room, speaking and participating as normal.

3. Non-tech committees WILL NOT allow the use of technology during conference. All resolution writing will be done on paper and all prior research must be printed and be available in a physical form for the delegates to reference throughout committee.

An elaboration on each committee's specific technology policy will be posted on each committee's blog before conference.

In short, students should expect to bring technology, but should not expect to be able to rely on it in committee. Ample research prior to arrival is still central to their success. No delegate will be penalized for not having technology in committee, and having technology in committee does not guarantee success. These are simply the limitations our chairs have chosen to place on technology use in their respective committees.

Please use your common sense when deciding what to wear to the conference; treat your experience here with the utmost professionalism and taste, clothing must be of appropriate length and formality. Unacceptable attire includes tennis shoes, t-shirts, jeans, tank tops, hats or caps.

The head chair of each committee will have the final say on the interpretation and the enforcement of the dress code. If a delegate is inappropriately dressed, they may be reported to their advisor and asked to change into more appropriate attire before being able to participate in committee.

We are dedicated to providing a space free of sexual harassment. Sexual harassment is behavior of a sexual nature that is unwelcome and offensive to the person or persons it is targeted toward. Examples of harassing behavior may include unwanted physical contact, foul language of an offensive sexual nature, sexual propositions, sexual jokes or remarks, obscene gestures, and displays of pornographic or sexually explicit pictures, drawings, or caricatures. Use of a computer system at BMUN conferences or affiliated events for the purpose of viewing, displaying, or disseminating material that is sexual in nature may also constitute harassing behavior. We at BMUN follow the California state standard for consent: affirmative consent. Consent must be affirmative, informed, explicit, and voluntary. Any act performed when one of these requirements is not met is sexual harassment.

In order to prevent incidents of harassment, BMUN leverages a number of policies and systems both in committee and in our related conference events. First, we use pages in all committees. These dais members will be responsible for reviewing notes before transferring them between delegations. Further, we use seating charts in every committee in order to better track the movement of notes.

At our delegate dance, we have elevated platforms so that our secretariat can better monitor delegate behavior, and we remind all delegates of our harassment policy before releasing them from committee on Saturday night before the dance. In addition, we use on-floor monitors with flashlights to break up large groups and make monitoring the dance more manageable.

BMUN has a zero tolerance policy for harassment of any nature. We reserve the right to contact advisors should delegates be found in suspicion of violating the harassment policy as outlined above. Delegates found in violation of this policy will NOT be welcomed back to committee in the following session and will NOT be considered for awards. Additionally, their school or club will be ineligible for school or club awards.

Violations include, but are not limited to:

• Passing of inappropriate notes of a sexual or discriminatory nature as outlined above
• Inappropriate, unwanted touching of other delegates in committee or at the delegate dance
• Verbal attacks of a sexual or discriminatory nature against other delegates in committee and at BMUN affiliated events

Reports to the Secretary-General will be evaluated based on this policy and action will be taken at the Secretary-General’s discretion. The determined outcome will first be relayed to the advisor of the delegate in question, who will go with the Secretary-General to remove the delegate from the committee room.