Instructions Team USA
Revised October 15, 2006
You have the most exciting job at the Summit!
Thank you for volunteering to serve as a member of Team USA. Your team of adult volunteers has a unique opportunity to add excitement, spice and competition to the Summit experience. Your role at the Summit is critical!
Summary of your Job
Team USA participates in most of the Summit activities during the day just like the student teams. However, we do not keep an official score for the USA. You are not in competition with the students but, like the students, you will campaign for your economic proposal, trade exports and imports, join country trading alliances etc. The success of the student teams in the Summit event will depend partly on how successfully they negotiate and do business with you.
Summit Roles and Responsibilities
- Student Teams: Teams of 4-5 students. Take the role of “Economic Advisors” to their assigned country.
- Facilitator: Has overall responsibility for running the Summit event. The ultimate authority on decisions and conflicts.
- Summit Scorekeepers: Community volunteers. Each scorekeeper responsible for 4-5 student country teams. The USA Team will also be assigned a Scorekeeper and will turn certain documents into him/her during the day.
- Summit Bankers: Community volunteers. During afternoon session, they exchange currencies, make Summit loans, collect tariffs, etc.
- Team USA: Community volunteers. Participate in the Summit but not in competition with students.
Schedule and Specific Instructions
8:00 Set Up
Your table display will already be set up for you. You can add to it or modify it as you wish. You can also use any or all of the costume elements provided to “dress the part”. The students will enjoy your creativity.
8:30—8:45 Welcome and Introductions of Schools: Summit Facilitator
8:45--8:55 Geography Quiz (No Team USA involvement)
Student teams take a test to identify 10 countries presented in a slide show. Team USA does not need to take the test. Use this time to review instructions with your other team members.
9:00--9:40 Signature Campaign for Economic Proposals (Team USA participates)
This is your first opportunity to create some excitement in the Summit. You should do your best to gain entrance into the Economic Debate by gaining the maximum number of signature cards from student teams.
Rules & Procedures:
All teams, including Team USA, campaign to gain support (Signature Cards) for their Economic Proposals. Your proposal is in your packet of information and has already been distributed to the student teams. Each team starts with 5 Signature Cards, all of which they must award to other teams. The top 10 teams (and any tied for 10th place) that collect the most Signature Cards win the right to present their Proposal in the upcoming debate and score points.
Student teams will try to gain Team USA’s support for their proposals. You can only support five of them. You can use this opportunity to make the students compete for the USA’s support. At the same time, you must also campaign for support of your own proposal.
Summit Contracts:
Teams, including USA, may enter into “Summit Contracts” during this session. For example, China may agree to award a Signature Card to USA now in exchange for USA’s promise to provide Foreign Aid or Export Coupons to China later in the afternoon Trading Session. China and USA should keep a copy of the contract and USA must be sure to honor its obligation later in the day. Team USA should use Summit Contracts sparingly in order to maintain strategic flexibility later in the day. You are, however, free to use them as you choose, or to make verbal agreements, or to make tentative promises or to make no agreements at all.
9:40 Signature Cards must be turned in to Summit Scorekeepers
Even though USA is not scoring points, you should turn the Signature Cards and Signature Sheets into your Scorekeeper.
9:40--10:05 Trade Alliance Negotiations (Team USA participates)
This is another opportunity for Team USA to create some excitement and competition at the Summit.
Rules & Procedures:
Teams form trade alliances with other countries in preparation for the Export/Import Trading Session in the afternoon. Any country, including USA, may be a member of only 2 alliances. An alliance consists of no more than 6 countries. Teams will want to be in alliances that involve the USA because the USA has an abundance of Export Coupons and Foreign Aid that student teams will want and need to acquire later in the day.
A team joins an alliance by giving one of its two Alliance Cards to a Lead Alliance Country and by signing an Alliance Sheet. As part of the alliance, teams can also enter into Summit Contracts, which obligate them to fulfill their agreements with other teams.
As student teams seek to form alliances with Team USA, you can create a competitive market situation by offering your Alliance Cards to the “highest bidders” or, if you are feeling charitable, to the alliances that contain the neediest countries. It is up to you. You can sign contracts with any number of individual countries within your 2 alliances but you are not obligated to sign formal Summit Contracts.
10:05 Alliances must be turned in to Summit Scorekeepers
If Team USA is chosen to be a lead country in an alliance, you should turn all the Alliance Cards you have collected into your Summit Scorekeeper.
10:15--11:05 Global Economy Debate
If Team USA was one of the top 10 teams to gain the most Signature Cards earlier, you will present your proposal in this debate. You should be as persuasive (and perhaps controversial) as possible. The other student teams in the debate will be in competition with you to gain votes from the general assembly. During the debate, you might consider arguing (don’t over-do it) against other teams’ proposals. You might also consider “throwing” your votes to another team to stir up a bit of excitement. Use your discretion about how far to go. Be competitive yet fair and honest.
If you are not in the debate, consider advocating for one or more teams that are in the debate. You can do this from the “floor microphone” or more informally by word of mouth. You may also consider a little tasteful heckling.
11:05—11:15 Vote on Economic Proposals (Team USA votes)
Rules & Procedures:
Each country in the general assembly will cast 3 votes for 3 different Economic Proposals that were presented in the Global Economy Debate. Teams that participated in the debate may also vote. The top 3 teams that get the most votes, win. There is a voting ballot in your packet.
11:15 Votes must be turned in to Summit Scorekeepers
11:15—12:00 Lunch and Table Display Judging
Lunch: Students are on their own for lunch. USA Team members will have lunches provided.
Table Display Judging during Lunch
Team USA will have a table display provided but it is not in competition with the students.)
Costume Judging
Team USA members should do their best to dress the part. Several costume elements will be provided. You will not be in competition with the students, however.
12:00—12:15 Alliance Strategy Meetings
Rules & Procedures:
The teams may use this period to meet with the other members of their trade alliances and finalize plans for the upcoming trading session. It is likely that some teams, including those in your alliances, may solicit additional support from you or try to “cut” some special deals. Feel free to sign more contracts or to make informal, unenforceable agreements as you choose.
12:15—12:30 Economics Test (Team USA does not participate.)
The students will take a 12 question test on global economics as a team.
12:35—12:45 Pick Up Export Coupons, Foreign Aid and Currency
Team USA: Pick up your packet as well.
Overview:
There are 13 categories of Export Coupons in the Summit. There are also “Foreign Aid Vouchers and Receipts”. Wealthy countries award Foreign Aid Vouchers to poor countries in exchange for Foreign Aid Receipts. Each country also has a predetermined amount of cash. The USA has the most Export Coupons, Foreign Aid Vouchers and Cash of any team in the Summit.
12:55—1:45 Trading Session, Foreign Aid Exchange and Banking
This is the climax of the Summit Event.
Export/Import Trading:
The demand for Export Coupons is greater than the supply, creating a shortage in the Summit event. USA Export Coupons will be in high demand. You may sell or trade your coupons as you wish. You should honor any specific contracts you have entered into. You should also import or purchase approximately the same number of coupons that you export. You may set the price for your coupons according to supply and demand. You may auction them for cash or other coupons or you may require that student teams satisfy other demands you place on them. For example, you may devise a set of questions about business, economics, math etc. that you will ask student teams as you decide how to allocate your scarce coupons and/or Foreign Aid.Foreign Aid:
Wealthy countries, including USA, award Foreign Aid Vouchers to needy countries in exchange for a Foreign Aid Receipt. A Foreign Aid Voucher is worth 5 Welcos at the Summit Bank. Needy countries can also use the Foreign Aid Vouchers they receive to purchase Internal Improvement Coupons at the Summit Bank. Your price for awarding Foreign Aid Vouchers can include Foreign Aid Receipts, Export Coupons, Cash, services etc.
1:50 All final documents, coupons etc. must be turned in to Summit Scorekeepers
Team USA should turn in all Coupons and Foreign Aid Receipts it has received.
1:50—2:10 Final Summit Scoring & Team Table Cleanup
The Senior Summit Scorekeeper and Facilitator will make a final tally of the Summit-wide scoring and results to determine winning teams.
2:10—2:30 Award Ceremony
The following teams win awards at the Summit:
- 150 Point Club. All teams scoring at least 150 points
- 100% Geography Quiz. All teams scoring 100%
- 100% Economics Quiz. All teams scoring 100%
- 1st Place Table Display
- 1st Place Costume
- 1st Place 1st World Country
- 1st Place 2nd World Country
- 1st Place 3rd World Country
- Grand Summit Winner
