Each student is placed in one of four Houses (Althouse Alligators, Cody Cougars, Crawford Knights, and Lewis Vikings); several competitive House events are held throughout the year. These events include the House Track Meet, Lip-Sync contests, gameshow-themed competitions, intramural sports, and four-way soccer games. The house system is only one facet of an unusually rich extracurricular life at UTS, however, and activities range from the school newspaper and yearbook – "Cuspidor" and "Twig" (along with its offshoot, the "Twig Tape" which features student and alumni musical compositions) – to champion sports teams and clubs, to the Science Club and Food Appreciation Team, to the Card Strategy Club. Since 2001, UTS has been a five-time winner of the Reach for the Top quiz competition. UTS has also won the Ontario Student Classics Conference for twenty-one years running as of 2016, with the first win coming in 1996. UTS students are actively involved in public speaking; the UTS Debating Society is a major club and UTS students organize the Southern Ontario Model United Nations Assembly (SOMA), the largest and oldest Model United Nations conference run entirely by High School students in North America and the second largest Model UN conference for high school students in Canada. Science opportunities are equally abundant with multiple students placing in Olympiads and other regional, national, and international scientific competitions multiple years in the school's history.