The Slice from PBS North.

We model what the United Nations would do.

I'm Leslie Bucar.

I'm the community services program director for the Lake Superior YMCA.

for a day.

Oh So the Model United Nations is a group of individuals that are ages seventh grade through 12th grade that come from all over the state of Minnesota and also some from Wisconsin.

They get together, in the Twin Cities, for a conference.

So we are one of the delegations in the state that does not, host the through a high school or through a middle school we actually host through a YMCA.

And so our delegates are pulled from all of the middle schools and high schools in Duluth, in the surrounding areas.

I was on the Human Rights Council, which is separate from the General Assembly.

This year we had, two position papers on the rights of migrant workers and, the ethics of surveillance within the UN and within countries as a whole.

I was the delegate for the legal committee, in the GA as representing the country of Benin.

I helped write and I ended up being the one to present the resolution on deforestation.

Well, I was on the media team, so I went around the conference, I took photos, I wrote newspaper articles about kind of different topics I think that everybody should take one step out of their comfort zone, no matter what it is, whether it's just saying hi to somebody on the street or thanking your bus driver or something like that.

Just being able to get out and practice those connection skills, it's just a blast to talk with people and to get to be friendly and to come up with a compromise.

And at the state of the world today, that's really what we want to be working with our young kids is how to be able to see other people's viewpoints.

we are the people who are carrying the future forward, and we can make decisions that will impact our future for good.

And it's up to us.

The Slice from PBS North, presented by the Teberg Fund.