Day one has three parts. You are registered, the conference is opened, and then you lobby.
Very little formal debate happens on day one. That is deliberate. The resolutions debated later are written on this day. A committee that lobbies badly debates badly for the rest of the conference.
Everyone is signed in on arrival, before anything else happens.
In MEDIMUN, you are registered by QR code scan at the start of each conference day. Open the morning register in MediBook and have your code ready before you reach the front of the queue. See Registration and attendance.
SCREENSHOT: /medibook - the morning register screen on a delegate's phone, showing the QR code
If you arrive after registration has closed. Find a member of staff and get yourself registered anyway. Do not walk straight to your committee. Your attendance for the day is recorded at the register.
A delegate who does not appear is reported. The chair tells the secretariat at once. See Missing delegate policy.
The whole conference gathers in one room. The conference is formally opened, the theme is introduced, and the people running it are introduced.
Sit with your delegation and stay for the whole ceremony. See Opening and closing ceremonies.
After the ceremony, delegates go to their committee rooms. Find the room before the ceremony if you can. The corridors are full afterwards. See Committee rooms and seating.
The chairs open the committee. They take a roll call, and each delegate answers present or present and voting. That answer decides how you may vote in that session. See Roll call and Present and voting.
A roll call is not taken once for the whole conference. It is taken at the start of every day, and again after breaks. You answer each time.
The chairs then set out how the committee will use its time.
In MEDIMUN, roll calls are taken in MediBook. See Committee roll calls.
Lobbying is the largest part of day one. Delegates move around the room, present their ideas, find delegations that agree with them, and merge their draft resolutions into fewer and better ones.
Three things have to happen before lobbying ends.
A group forms around a draft.
The group merges its ideas into one text.
The group agrees a main submitter, and gathers co-submitters.
The main submitter is chosen by the group. It should be a fair choice. Wanting the grade is not a reason to be main submitter.
In MEDIMUN, lobbying starts online before the conference and continues on day one through the call feature in MediBook. All alliances are declared in MediBook and the chair enforces this. See The lobbying process and Forming and declaring an alliance.
In MEDIMUN, a resolution needs 10 co-submitters. See Main submitter and co-submitters.
If you are unsure where to start, go to the delegations whose position papers said something close to yours. Then go to the ones who disagreed. A resolution that only satisfies people who already agreed with you will not survive debate.
Chairs are active throughout lobbying. They read every draft in circulation, answer questions, mediate between groups that cannot agree, and check for plagiarism early. See Plagiarism.
Resolutions are written during lobbying, not after it.
In MEDIMUN, resolutions are written in MediBook, in the correct format. MediBook checks the format before a resolution can be submitted, so a badly formatted resolution will not send at all. See Resolution format and Resolutions in MediBook.
Once a resolution is submitted it goes to the chairs, and then to the Approval Panel for an editorial pass. See The Approval Panel for delegates.
The chairs will tell you what state the committee is in and when you are meeting the next morning. Breaks and finishing times are announced as a time, not as a length.
In MEDIMUN, the committee state is always declared in the MediBook control panel. If the committee is lobbying, the state says lobbying. If the committee is on a break, the state says waiting. There are no exceptions. See Declaring the committee state.
Read what you can that evening. Day two is debate. See Conference day two.