Month: March 2024

Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts students earned recognition at two events that provide participants opportunities to learn leadership skills as well as public speaking, problem solving and organizational skills.

ASMSA students participated in both the Arkansas High School Model Arab League and Arkansas Model United Nations conferences recently. Participants are selected to represent countries as if they were delegates from those nations in each event.

Thirteen Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts students are finalists in the Arts Across Arkansas competition.

Arts Across Arkansas is a program that aims to encourage, enhance and expand students’ original thoughts, processes, personal experiences and artistic abilities, according to the program’s website. It is sponsored by the Arkansas Arts Council, an agency of the Division of Arkansas Heritage.

ASMSA students chosen as finalists include:

Visual Arts: Lilly Hardin, Gwen Oliver, Charlotte Lammers, Olivia Busby and Lyla Hill;

Film: Jaime Hernandez, Calen Long and Ciara Stephens;

Music Composition: Faith Wesley, Grace Adams, Elizabeth Show and Alexander Back; and

Photography: Meera Patel.

Students are nominated by their school to submit works for consideration. Teaching artists from the Arkansas Arts Council’s Arts in Education roster judge the submissions, selecting finalists for each medium. An Arts in Education artist then provides a mentor session for each finalist.

The finalist will participate in a state finals event that will be held on March 30. Students are eligible to win a cash prize.

Thirty-one Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts students have qualified to compete in events at the state FBLA Conference on April 29-30 in Little Rock.

Twenty-six students earned recognition at the 2024 FBLA District IV Spring Conference that was held on Feb. 7 at the University of Arkansas Community College at Hope/Texarkana in Hope, earning the opportunity to compete in the state event. The competitive events included either an objective subject test, performance/presentation or a combination of an objective test and a performance component. An additional five students participated in events that automatically qualify for the state competition.