For the sixth time in as many years, Mansfield’s Al-Noor Academy has captured the overall trophy at the prestigious annual Muslim student competition for Greater Boston.
MIST, or the Muslim Interscholastic Tournament, took place April 6 and 7 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and brought together a dozen teams from as far away as Worcester to vie for top prizes in such areas as Muslim knowledge, current events, performing and visual arts, and writing. Competitors amass points by placing in various events, with the overall winners finding themselves atop that list. Six straight times, Al-Noor Academy’s team, the Über Noobers, has won the trophy.
Not only did the Academy win top overall honors, Al-Noor senior Amina Fahmy was selected as top individual performer.
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Al-Noor Academy serves students in grades six through 12, and bases its curriculum on a combination of standard subjects covered in the Massachusetts Frameworks, and Islamic subjects such as religion, studies of Islam’s holy Quran, and the Arabic language. Open to Muslims and non-Muslims alike, the school offers a dual-enrollment program in which juniors and seniors attend core courses at area colleges, amassing credits acceptable to shorten their subsequent baccalaureate studies by as much as half.