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.
