North Carolina Scholastic Media Institute 2026 Registration

Join us this summer for NCSMI at UNC-Chapel Hill, June 16-18! This form must be completed by advisers/teachers attending the 2026 Institute. It is designed for school groups, for teachers and advisers to complete one form for all of their student participants. Registration must be completed via this form before payment can be processed.

DEADLINE: Registration will open March 1 and close at 11:59 p.m. on June 1 -- if space remains available. NCSMI 2026 will cap participants at 200, with priority enrollment to North Carolina schools. 

COST: Registration fee is $250 per person until the deadline of May 15. Late registration after the May 15 deadline is $300 per person. (Workshop scholarship deadline is May 15. See the Summer Institute Guide at ncsma.unc.edu/institute/ for details.)

IMPORTANT NOTICE: This form must be completed by advisers/teachers only. Students may not register themselves. This is a residential Institute for school groups, with students chaperoned by their student media advisers/journalism teachers. Individual advisers, attending without a student group, may attend as commuters. Students may not attend as commuters.

Advisers who register four or more students will be assigned a private room. Adviser registration fee will be waived for advisers who register 10 or more students. Any other single room accommodations will incur a $100 additional fee – if space is available. For payment information, please visit ncsma.unc.edu/payment.

REQUIRED FORMS: NCSMA will follow up with more information about release and conduct requirements to be completed by parents/guardians on CampDoc.

EMAIL ADDRESSES: We will send important updates to submitted email addresses. Make sure to use an email address you check regularly.

ACCOMMODATION REQUESTS: Submit 14 days prior to NCSMI.

NCSMA'S NO CANCELLATION POLICY: Registration is a commitment for payment. If a participant has to cancel before June 1, a 50 percent refund will be made. No refund can be made after June 1 due to budgetary obligations. You may substitute a student, but cannot cancel.

ADVISERS

The adviser curriculum is recommended for all new advisers, and returning advisers find the sense of community in these sessions especially valuable. Please include home address, phone number and email address of each adviser attending NCSMI.

NOTE: Advisers who chaperone four or more students will be assigned a private room. 

STUDENTS

Enroll each student in only one division. Students will be expected to attend the division in which they are enrolled.

Divisions: 

• Design*
• Digital Media***
• News (Newspaper and Online News)
• Photojournalism* 
• The Rush Advanced News Staff***
• Broadcast News
• Yearbook

Bootcamps:

• Leadership Bootcamp**
• Creativity Bootcamp**

*limited to two students per staff, with enrollment limits of 20 in each division

**limited to four students per staff, with enrollment limits of 50 in each bootcamp

***limited to two students per staff, with enrollment limits of 10 in each division

For division descriptions see ncsma.unc.edu/institute.

Parking

Each school is allowed one (car/van) parking pass per every five people attending the Institute. Please enter the number of parking passes your school will need. NCSMA is not responsible for any parking tickets. Parking passes will be distributed at registration.

 

Notes to NCSMA Office

Please use the space provided to add any comments regarding your registration's submission.

Payment

The fields below will generate an invoice for NCSMA and your records. Submit online payments at ncsma.unc.edu/payment. Full payment by school check or school credit card is preferred.

Registration confirms payment owed. You may substitute registrants, but we do not accept cancellations. NCSMI policy allows a 50% refund before June 1. There is no refund on or after June 1.