Note: If you plan your team early enough, you can even get your school to provide bussing to the tournament. Since MIST is an academic school sponsored event, you should be able to receive bussing. Ask your MSA sponsor and your school administration how to get buses for your MIST team.

Also, try to establish lettering criteria so that 1-5 place winners of MIST from your team and other members of your MSA can letter and receive letter jackets if your school has them. More information about Lettering

1. Have the Organization's coach sign the School Permission Letter, and then take it to your school's principal/assistant principal for his/her approval for MIST and for lettering. More information about Lettering Criteria
2. Your MIST team must be open to all who are interested in joining from your school, Muslim or otherwise.
3. Your team MUST not include anyone from outside of your school, unless that person is home schooled.
4. Advertise MIST throughout your high school and try to get as many members from your school to join your MIST team.
5. Allow each student to go through the Category Overview and individual rules for each competitive event in order to choose which events to compete in (rules can be printed off www.dcmist.com and made into packets for the students, or posted by the sign up sheet in your coach’s classroom).
6. Each student may sign up for only one competitive event from each of the five Categories. This means each student has the option of signing up for one art competition, one oratory/writing competition, one knowledge/quran competition, one bracket competition, and one group project competition.
7. No more than two (2) students per school may sign up for each of the competitive events with the exception of the group competitions and MIST Bowl. You must keep track of this on the Team Registration Form to prevent confusion. In the case of more students wanting to compete in a competition, determine who will sign up for the competition through a mini-competition amongst interested students. This will give your group something exciting to do. Otherwise, students can decide amongst themselves who will register for that particular competition.
8. Once a student registers for a competition, they may not under any circumstances change their mind once the team registration has received a coach's approval. If the student decides to go ahead and not participate in the competition they originally registered for, their team will receive a zero for that competition which will affect the Team Average. Points will also be deducted from the student's overall score as well as the team's overall score. Make sure students register for competitions in which they will participate.
9. Determine a date when all team members should have signed up for their competitions and paid their registration fees online. Only once all team members have signed up and paid can the Registrar submit the team registration for a coach’s approval.
10. You will not be able to register after the registration deadline. Online registration will become inactive. Please refer to the Registration Dates.
11. Once a coach gives final approval online for their team's registration and submits it to MIST, each member of the team will receive an email detailing the competitions they registered for as well as their MIST ID. Make sure you do not delete this email.
12. Once registration is over, no additions or changes can be made to any team. NO exceptions whatsoever.