By Mackenzie Menter, Staff Writer
Undergraduate Research Day, a competition where OCU students present research projects, is scheduled for April 26 in Walker Center for Arts and Sciences.
Students can submit any work they have done in class or on their own for presentation.
“We have the poster contest in the fall, and we have the paper and PowerPoint contest in the spring,” said Regina Bennett, associate professor of English. “Students can win prizes for extremely well-researched, written and produced pieces of paper or PowerPoint or poster.”
Research can be submitted in a wide variety of categories.
“We just take the papers, no matter what they are, and then we assign categories to them,” Bennett said. “We’ve got some categories about music and gender and music and pop culture.”
About 50 students will be presenting their work this semester.
Victoria Trujillo, music sophomore, participated in the competition last year and plans to participate again. She presented a paper she wrote for a music theory class to a panel of judges.
“I had a PowerPoint that walked them through my paper and then I answered questions,” Trujillo said.
Trujillo would encourage other students to submit their work in the future.
“There’s a good chance, depending on what category you submit in, to win a prize,” Trujillo said. “If it’s one of the less-known categories, you have a better chance.”
Students not participating in the competition are also invited to attend.
“People are welcome to root for their friends,” Bennett said.
Presentations will be in classrooms throughout Walker Center.
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