Oakland University students tested their  talents Monday and Tuesday night at the OU’s Got Talent auditions in the Oakland Center.

Students gathered to audition before a panel of judges, hoping to move forward to compete at the OU’s Got Talent show on Oct. 12

The talent show is sponsored by the Student Program Board and is a part of a long-standing OU tradition, the Week of Champions. Students showcased abilities with acts featuring everything from street magic to singing and dancing. Judges from SPB evaluated each audition.

Senior Ivan Bimbelov performed a magic act that featured basic card magic, disappearing and vanishing acts and mentalism.

“I am going to make an illusion that I am pretty sure that nobody, not even any of the professionals, have ever done before. It’s a combination of three allusions … I’m hoping I can pull it off. All I know is the theory,” Bimbelov said.

Bimbelov practices magic in his free time, traveling to local clubs to perform his act. But his only other performance was at a talent show in high school.

Kirsite Smith performed a rendition of One Republic’s hit song, Secrets. She did not follow sheet music to the song and created the entire chorus herself by ear.

“One of my hobbies is taking songs that people know and arranging them myself,” Smith said.

Smith decided to audition because of a love for performance.

“I’m actually looking to major in piano,” Smith said. “I’ve been playing for … years and this is pretty much all I do. I love performing.”

Tarmell Arnold, also known as Tea The Monster, performed his first single, “3 Stripes,” off of his debut album which is set to be released Nov. 7. The single is dedicated to Arnold’s love of Adidas.

“This isn’t my first time performing at all, I just try and get in where I can with my talent to display to everybody,” Arnold said. “Three Stripes is a hip-hop song. I don’t curse in any of my music, so I hope it has a nice up-tempo beat that everyone can kind of nod their heads to.”

If accepted to perform at the talent show, Arnold says he won’t change his act much, but he will take the judges’ critiques into consideration.

“I’m hoping the judges are easy, but at the same time will critique me on things that I can work on,” Arnold said. “If I don’t pass the auditions there are no hard feelings.”

Sophomore Kimani Troup, also known as Smoov Muke, performed a singing and dancing act to Chris Brown’s Glow In The Dark for the judges.

“I’m kind of nervous because this is my first time performing in front of anybody,” Troup said. “I’m just going to go ahead and show off a little of talent because nobody really knows how to sing and dance.”

Feelings were mixed as students prepared to perform in front of the judges. Some were cool and confident, while others had pre-performance jitters.

The WOCOU Talent Show: OU’s Got Talent, will be held Tuesday, Oct. 12 at Meadow Brook Theatre from 8-11 p.m.