How to make and submit a poster
Poster Formatting
Easels and 3' by 4' Styrofoam boards will be provided. Posters should be printed on paper/ fabric.
Most posters are built using MS PowerPoint. Please set the poster’s size as 36 inches high and 48 inches wide. Most posters include title, authors, affiliation, abstract, introduction, methods, results, discussion, conclusion, acknowledgments, and references. Use a font size that makes it easy to read your poster from 4 feet away, use a lot of good-quality graphics, and limit text. Please use a white or very light background- that saves a lot of costs and is environmentally friendly. Dark background graphics will be changed by the printshop, and that might affect your poster negatively; thus, please do it yourself instead. Here is an example of a poster still in the MS PowerPoint format.
Please work with your mentor to ensure that your poster presentation's content discloses only what is proper to be publicly shown. Your mentor will discuss with you and help you edit the poster’s title, list of authors, and content.
Once the content is spellchecked, finalized, and approved by your mentor, save the file, then save it as a PDF. Please name your pdf file starting with the first author's family name. The maximum pdf size permitted is 10 MB. If your PDF is larger, edit/decrease the graphics' resolution and resave.
Poster Printing
The poster can be printed at your expense at any time.
Submit the PDF for free printing for the Fall Poster Symposium by 11:59 PM on Friday, September 13. To submit, please sign into SUNY-Oswego mail or Laker Apps and then use this link to submit your poster.
Submit the PDF for free printing for Quest by 11:59 PM on April 9th. To submit, please sign into SUNY-Oswego mail or Laker Apps and then use this link to submit your poster.
After you submit your poster, your poster will be printed for you and brought to the Fall Poster Symposium or Quest. You do not have to pick it up from the print shop.
If you are late, you will need to print your poster at your own expense. Reach out to one of the following businesses to print:
Email: orders@portcitycc.com
Phone: 315-342-1363
Email: kathy@speedwaypress.com
Many online retailers are also available. If you print it on your own, you need to bring it to the poster session.
Questions?
If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to the ORCA Director at orca@oswego.edu