Peak Innovation Center in Fort Smith will not open this August
School leaders say the project is coming in about $6 million over budget, but the money is still there to finish it. Author: 5NEWS Web Staff Updated: 3:10 PM CDT July 16, 2021
FORT SMITH, Ark. The Fort Smith Public Schools Peak Innovation Center will not open this school semester as originally planned.
The center is being built inside a donated facility on Zero Street near Barling. It s designed for career and college-bound students to gain real-world skills in healthcare, technology and manufacturing.
School leaders say the project is coming in about $6 million over budget, but the money is still there to finish it.
Arkansas Catholic screen capture
In this screen capture from his video entry, Carson Lane pitches his idea for a contact-tracing app to the Peak Innovation Center 2020 Student Entrepreneur Pitch Competition Nov. 19 in Fort Smith.
Arkansas Catholic screen capture
In this screen capture from his video entry, Carson Lane pitches his idea for a contact-tracing app to the Peak Innovation Center 2020 Student Entrepreneur Pitch Competition Nov. 19 in Fort Smith.
FORT SMITH A Trinity Junior High School student pitched the idea of a COVID-related app and earned a top spot in the Fort Smith School District’s Peak Innovation Center 2020 Student Entrepreneur Pitch Competition in November.
Courtesy / Mercy Health System
With a rise in COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations, Mercy Fort Smith and Mercy Northwest Arkansas are proactively reaching out to patients and asking them to consider becoming plasma donors. Convalescent plasma may contain antibodies that may help patients fighting the virus. Donors need to be fully recovered for 28 days before donating plasma.