A Model United Nations (MUN) conference is one of Political Science's most enduring and iconic formats for active learning and a defining event for many undergraduate students and high school students. Despite its established place in the discipline of Political Science, a MUN conference is an event that defies attempts at perfection, due mainly to the experience being out of the hands of faculty. This paper identifies five lessons learned from delivering hybrid MUN conferences at a mid-sized university campus (6,500 undergraduate students) between 2015-2019. The faculty member collaborated with upper-level undergraduate student organizers to organize and deliver conferences that included delegates participating in partial fulfillment of course credit, delegates from local high-schools, and university students participating for the experience. The connecting theme of these lessons is a consideration of achieving balance between the two roles of the participating faculty member as both the authoritative decision-maker, and that of a delegating supervisor providing oversight and allowing students the freedom to assume the responsibilities of serving as secretariat or as delegate.