Author: Donnie Sewell

ASMSA will host a free Science and Engineering Institute Saturday, May 5 giving students in grades 6-10 the opportunity to learn about musical acoustics, computer programming and chemistry. The classes will be held from 9 a.m. to noon on the ASMSA campus in downtown Hot Springs.

ASMSA announces its honor roll for the third quarter of the 2011-12 school year.

The ASMSA Quiz Bowl Team won the Arkansas Governor's Quiz Bowl Association 7-A Regional Tournament held March 10 in North Little Rock.

ASMSA is accepting entries for its inaugural Science of Art photography contest. The contest is open to all 8th, 9th and 10th grade students in Arkansas. In addition to ASMSA, contest sponsors are the ASMSA Foundation, Williams Studio, and the Mid-America Science Museum

The March 29th issue of the Democrat-Gazette Tri-Lakes edition featured an interview with Dr. Janet Hugo about the new Student Life Complex. Click here to read the article.

On March 9, 2012, The Sentinel-Record (Hot Springs) published an article about Class of 1996 grad Brian Shiro meeting Neil Armstrong at a recent conference in California. Shiro is co-founder of Astronauts 4 Hire.

Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts held its annual Science Fair and Senior Research Symposium (SRS) Feb. 22-24. All seniors must complete a Science Fair or SRS project as part of their graduation requirements. In addition to being judged on their projects, the students participated in a Junior Academy competition, which is a 10-minute oral presentation about their projects.

The ASMSA Quiz Bowl team scored a perfect 7-0 to win the Parkview Fundraising Tournament Feb. 4 in Little Rock.