Seventeen SUNY Oneonta students participated in the 2017 National Model United Nations Conference in New York City from March 19-23. The Oneonta delegation represented South Africa.

SUNY Oneonta's Hooked On Tonics a cappella group competed in an International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA) Northeast Quarterfinal on Feb. 25 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The 14-member ensemble performed a set that included "All Time Low" by John Bellion, "I Want it That Way" by the Backstreet Boys and a Michael Jackson medley. "All Time Low" and "I Want it That Way" featured original arrangements by group member Sydney Kurnit, who is a sophomore at SUNY Oneonta.

SUNY Oneonta graduate student Kwasi Agyemang represented the Mohawk Valley in the state finals of the seventh annual New York Business Plan Competition (NYBPC) on April 29 in Albany. Agyemang, who will graduate May 14 with a Master of Arts degree in History Museum Studies from SUNY Oneonta's Cooperstown Graduate Program, took first place at the regional level in the Informational Technology/Software category for his company, Travelsee.

The SUNY Oneonta Poetry Slam Team competed in the 16th annual College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) from April 6-9, 2016, at the University of Texas-Austin. Hosted by the Association of College Unions International, CUPSI is the only licensed poetry slam tournament bringing college students together to showcase their talents in the competitive art of performance poetry.

A team of SUNY Oneonta students won an honorable mention award at the 2015 College Fed Challenge competition on Nov. 16. This was the third consecutive year that SUNY Oneonta has made it to the semifinals of the intercollegiate monetary policy competition, held at the New York Federal Reserve Bank.

Eleven SUNY Oneonta students traveled to New York City in April to participate in the National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC) sponsored by the American Advertising Federation (AAF). The goal of this year's competition was to create an advertising campaign that would increase online orders for Pizza Hut, this year's NSAC corporate sponsor.

SUNY Oneonta's Big O Poetry Slam team made it to the semifinals at the 15th annual College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) hosted by Virginia Commonwealth University from March 25-28. The annual event is sponsored by the Association of College Unions International. This year, 68 teams competed during the four-day event, which included educational workshops, haiku and nerd slams. Oneonta finished 12th in the nation, ahead of last year's national champions, the University of Texas-Austin.

Twenty-one students represented SUNY Oneonta at the National Model United Nations Conference in New York City from March 22-26. SUNY Oneonta students represented two countries: Oman and Turkey. The Turkey delegation was recognized by conference organizers as an Outstanding Delegation, the highest honor of the conference. The Oman delegation was recognized as a Distinguished Delegation, the second-highest honor.

SUNY Oneonta graduate student Kwasi Agyemang will represent the Mohawk Valley in the state finals of the sixth annual New York Business Plan Competition (NYBPC) on Friday, April 24, in Albany. Agyemang took second place at the regional level in the Informational Technology/Software category for his company, Travelsee. Travelsee is an app that helps users find and share cultural experiences based on GPS location and keywords.

Forty-two members of SUNY Oneonta's Terpsichorean Dance Company represented the college at the annual Collegiate Dance Invitational in Cortland, NY, on Feb 21. At the competition, Terps members choreographed and performed in six group numbers, two duets and four solos. Three dances received first-place awards and another seven numbers brought home second- and third-place prizes.

A team of 13 economics and business economics students from SUNY Oneonta won an Honorable Mention Award in the 2014 College Fed Challenge, held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in November.

Fifteen SUNY Oneonta students spent part of their spring break at the National Model United Nations Conference in New York City from March 30-April 3. This year's delegation, representing C?te d'Ivoire, was one of 28 groups from around the world selected to receive the Distinguished Delegation award at the end of the five-day conference. This is a high honor, placing the Oneonta delegation in the top 10 percent of participants.

A team of students from SUNY Oneonta will compete in the semifinal round of the 2013 College Fed Challenge at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on Monday, Nov. 18. Teams from 36 schools in the Second District competed in the first round of the competition at John Jay College on Nov. 5, and the SUNY Oneonta contingent bested teams from the five other schools in its bracket to advance to the semifinals.

Anthony Castoria of Lake Ronkonkoma, NY, is the winner of a video contest organized by the SUNY Oneonta Office of Sustainability to promote the college's new single-stream recycling program. Castoria, a senior majoring in mass communications, won a $100 gift card to the college's bookstore for his video, which offered a light-hearted take on which items can -- and cannot -- be tossed into the new blue recycling bins on campus.

SUNY Oneonta senior Julia Fremante of Guilderland, N.Y., is the winner of the 2013 New York State Economics Association (NYSEA) Undergraduate Student Paper Competition. A business economics major with a concentration in finance, Fremante was one of six students chosen to present papers during the NYSEA's 66th Annual Meeting at Farmingdale State College from Oct. 4-5.

The SUNY Oneonta Poetry Slam Team finished in 10th place out of 59 teams from across the country after making it to the semifinal round of a national collegiate poetry slam tournament in April. The SUNY Oneonta slammers faced off against teams from Stanford University, Wesleyan University, University of California-Berkeley and Virginia Commonwealth University during a semifinal bout in the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) at Barnard College on April 5. Hosted by the Association of College Unions International, CUPSI is the only licensed poetry slam tournament bringing college students together to showcase their talents in the competitive art of performance poetry. During the four-day tournament, more than 400 poets representing 59 colleges and universities from across the United States attended workshops and competed for top honors in collegiate performance poetry. This year's event marked the highest attendance in history. The following students were members of the 2013 SUNY Oneonta Poetry Slam Team:

The following local residents were part of a 16-member SUNY Oneonta student delegation recognized with an Honorable Mention Award at the National Model United Nations Conference in New York City from April 1- 5. The conference attracted over 2,000 students representing more than 100 colleges and universities from around the world, and only the top 10 percent of participants achieved this recognition.