Author: Donnie Sewell

Rachel Stall, a senior at the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts, has been named a U.S. Presidential Scholar.

Studying the arts and humanities can help us better understand the facts of science and mathematics and provide an opportunity to better understand ourselves.

That’s the message that Don Baker shared in his opening address of the first Arts and Humanities Capstone Symposium at the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts on Friday morning. Baker, who holds a Ph.D. in political science, currently serves as an economic and commercial officer at the U.S. Embassy in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has also served in Iraq, Afghanistan, Poland, Mexico and Jamaica. Before he began his career as a foreign service officer, Baker served as a humanities instructor at ASMSA for six years.

It’s not surprising that cell phone service in parts of Peru don’t exist. It’s not like Machu Picchu is a thriving metropolis these days. So when Emily Smith — a junior from Cabot at the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts — missed a few calls and texts while participating in a recent tour of Peru as part of the school’s Global Learning Program, it wasn’t a big deal.

What was a big deal was the news that those messages contained — Smith had just received notice that she had earned a perfect score—a 36— on her most recent ACT test. In February, she took the universal ACT test, which every junior in Arkansas took for free.

The Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts will hold its first Arts and Humanities Research Capstone Symposium on May 3. It will include a morning address by Don Baker, the economic and commercial officer for the U.S. Embassy in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Several students from the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts earned recognition at the recent Arkansas Young Artist Association Spring Competition and Convention.

Carl Frank, a computer science instructor at the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts, has been named a finalist for the 2019 Arkansas Computer Science Educator of the Year award.

More than 50 Arkansas students will showcase mobile apps they created in their computer science classes at the Arkansas Apps for Good Festival at the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub on April 18.  This is the fourth year the Apps for Good festival has been held in Arkansas.

The Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts has selected four finalists to serve as its next dean of academic affairs.

It was an eventful weekend for the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts at the Arkansas State Science and Engineering Fair at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway on March 29-30.

Former Hot Springs Mayor Melinda Baran remembers how various government and civic groups joined forces to win the competition for the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts after its creation in 1991.