A team of students from the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts will be the first high school team to compete in the Arkansas Governor’s Cup Collegiate Business Plan Competition in its 19-year history.

Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts students will now have an opportunity to earn a fully funded scholarship to Arkansas State University thanks to a Hot Springs resident.

Conservation biologist Thomas Lovejoy will be the featured speaker at this year’s Kane Allen Memorial Lectureship at the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts at 6 p.m. April 5.

The Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts will host the first HighSchoolHack competition on April 13.

Louise Lawrence-Israels, a Holocaust survivor, will speak at the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts on April 1.

Eight Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts students were named National Merit Finalists for the 2018-19 academic year by the National Merit Scholarship Corp.

Developing disease resistance in certain strains of rice, a study of the water quality of the Gulpha Creek Watershed in Hot Springs National Park, and a mathematical equation to track the movement of microplastics in ocean currents were the topics of the top three projects at the 2019 West Central Regional Science Fair at the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts.

The West Central Regional Science Fair will hold an open house and public viewing session on Feb. 22 in the Oaklawn Foundation Community Center in the new Creativity and Innovation Complex on the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts campus.

A team from the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts won the Dolphin Challenge — the northern Texas regional competition of the National Ocean Sciences Bowl — for a second time in a row.