Category: News

Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts students took two of the top prizes in the state Science Fair and the top three prizes in the state Junior Academy of Sciences competition. The school also won the Overall Team award and the Class 7A Team award at the state Science Fair, which was held April 1-2 at the University of Central Arkansas in Conway.

Students from Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts participated in the 2011 University of Arkansas High School Programming Contest on March 12 at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. The contest is hosted by the Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering and sponsored by the student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery and by Acxiom.

ASMSA students Anveshi Guha and Ted Stiritz placed first in the Advanced Spanish Speaking competition at the District Foreign Language Festival held Feb. 19 at historic Central High School in Little Rock.

Melanie Nichols, the former dean of the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts, has established a scholarship for mathematics students planning to attend a four-year college or university.