During the fifth week of the program, I realized the reality of our limited time together. There were only two weeks left. My students were starting to feel anxious about saying their goodbyes, and so was I. Nevertheless, we still had many exciting things planned. While there are many eventful things to highlight for this week, the key aspect was definitely the climate negotiation simulation. SEGL naturally attracts many of the brightest young minds around the world, creating an enticing network. The Climate Negotiation Simulation was produced by a former alum who herself is a climate negotiator. My role in this simulation included assigning each of the students a country. Easy, right? Well, not quite. I employed another faculty member to assist me in assigning student countries. We considered various components such as the student’s prior leadership opportunities, kinship to a specific nation, and group dynamics. We wanted to give students who hadn’t had prior opportunities the space to truly demonstrate their leadership potential. Additionally, after observing student personalities, we wanted to curate groups that were well balanced. Another aspect of this exercise was communication; pulling from my experience working and communicating at Columbia, I made Google Chat groups so that the different student groups could emulate climate negotiation tactics during the simulation. It was a fruitful experience to witness my students acting as their nations and working together to come to a beneficial solution.