The Mensa International Gifted Youth Committee is developing a resources repository that can be shared between national Mensa groups.

We are delighted to announce that Mensa India has become a Full National Mensa!

Congratulations to Mensa Peru on becoming a Provisional National Mensa!

Their achievement is all the more impressive as it is less than a year since they achieved Emerging National Mensa status.

Mensa, the “high IQ society”, is proud to announce that it has just appointed, as of November 1st, two new International Communications Officers.

On behalf of the IBD, ExComm, and the worldwide Mensa membership, we would like to express our gratitude to every Mensa appointee and committee member for all their hard work during the last term, which came to an end this month. Your efforts are truly appreciated.

Kate Nacard, Editor of the Mensa World Journal,  reports that the inaugural Mensa World Journal International Poetry Competition 2020 has been an outstanding success!

Results will be published in the December issue of the Mensa World Journal.

Congratulations – yet again – to Mensa Taiwan (Chinese Taipei)!

Congratulations to Mensa Bosnia & Herzegovina! 

We are delighted to announce the wonderful news that our Executive Committee has formally awarded Provisional National Mensa (PNM) status to Mensa Bosnia & Herzegovina.

The Mensa Foundation is proud to announce its 2020 Mensa International Scholarship Winners:

USD $3,000 International Scholarship - Niki Stypidou from Mensa Greece

USD $1,000 International Scholarship - Simon Hai Yang from Mensa Germany

I can report another wonderful achievement: we will extend the IBD table by one chair. After being a Provisional Mensa for quite a long time, Mensa Mexico has achieved Full National Status!

The results of the election for the four globally-elected officers of Mensa International have been announced.

The Chairman is Bjorn Liljeqvist from Sweden,

Director of Administration: Isabella Holz from Germany;

The Electoral committee of Mensa Serbia has announced the final results of the elections for the new Board of Mensa Serbia.

This is the list of new Board members, for the term starting 1 April 2019.

Aleksandra Borovic (Chairman)

Predrag Djukic

Veljko Karadzic

Every other year, the Mensa Foundation awards US$1,000 to an outstanding professional who has contributed a lifetime to scholarly pursuits in intelligence, giftedness, or creativity. Nominations are being accepted now.

Nominees need not be members of Mensa.

On Saturday 02. February, Mensa Croatia held an extraordinary election as a result of the resignation of the previous chair Marko Šolić.

Members of the new board are:

Mensa Brasil is happy to announce the launch of its Jovens Brilhantes / Brilliant Youth program.

www.jovensbrilhantes.org.br

Mensa Korea has announced the results of its election:

Chairman - Heung-kyu Park
Director of Administration - Sung-Gyun Im
Treasurer - Seunghwan Lee
Officer of Publicity - Jae Heon Jeong
Officer of Development - Hyun Jung Kim

Tadam, tadam, here comes Silvensa 2019 in... Marseilles, France!

East meets West in Shanghai on New Year's Eve, with nearly 200 members from as far afield as Germany, Poland, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, New Zealand, Indonesia, and more!

Please be advised that any candidates seeking British Mensa’s support for their application for one of the International Elected Officer roles will need to submit their application packs to [email protected] and

The Mensa Foundation is now accepting nominations for the biennial Mensa Foundation Prize, which rewards breakthroughs in the studies of intelligence and creativity.

Mr. Takano is now Chairman-elect of Mensa Japan, following the resignation of Satoki Takeichi.

A small delegation of Mensans, led by Mensa Serbia's chairwoman, Aleksandra Borovic, visited the Prime Ministeer's Office in Belgrade.An agreement was signed with the Deputy Prime Minister whereby Mensa would be supported in its aims regarding giftedness and education.

A small delegation led by Aleksandra Borovic, Chairwoman of Mensa Serbia, visited the Prime Minister's Office in Belgrade to discuss education, giftedness, and gender equality.

A Conference on Giftedness - Education and Development, was also held in Serbia this month. It was organised by Mensa Serbia, and was attended by approximately 100 people.

The 2018 EMAG held in Belgrade was attended by nearly 600 Mensans, not only from Europe but from Asia, America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil and more!

Mensa International welcomes a new Full National Mensa to our table, as Mensa Argentina reaches this important milestone in the history of a national Mensa!

Almost one hundred and fifty Mensans from eighteen countries met for the Asian Mensa Annual Gathering (now known as the 'Asia-Pacific' Annual Gathering) in Cebu in the Philippine Islands earlier this month.

2018 Mensa Foundation Award Winners Announced

It's time for cheers and some celebration — the Mensa Foundation is proud to announce the 179 local, regional, national, and international scholarships awarded in 2018, with a combined value of more than $130,000.

Mensa in Spain has elected a new board:

Hello, For almost a year, the Committee, a team of volunteers working on puzzles and British Mensa have collaborated to produce a week long publicity event.

We are very happy to announce that Mensa Korea celebrates its 20th anniversary this year.
Mensa Korea was founded in Seoul in 1998 with very few members, and now we are proud to have over 2,500 Mensans.

Association Leader Named Mensa Executive Director

This weekend Mensa in Mexico held the award ceremony of theirLogical Olympics. It was held at the Arts Museum of the public university and as part of the program of the awards ceremony attendees were given a guided 'tour' of a famous local painting within the museum.

One of the first Chairmen in Australian Mensa was Melbourne Mensan Jeff Whittle. This year Jeff has been honoured in the Australia Day Honours as an Officer (AO) in the Order of Australia, for services to the information technology and mining industries.

Association Leader Named American Mensa Executive Director

You can listen to the interview here; https://twitter.com/NeilSundayBest/status/955081297071816704

Mensa Brazil electoral process, started on October 19, 2017, has come to an end.

Mensa HK is celebrating its 30th anniversary.

A Conference with Charisma

Tackling the challenges of Giftedness in Europe

The Logical Olympiad Competition organised and co-ordinated by Mensa in the Czech Republic has had an astounding 61,000 entrants this year from schools throughout the nationa!

In a little over six weeks, Mensa China will be celebrating the Western New Year's Eve with Mensans from around the world. 

Mensan Dr Ranko Rajovic was nominated by Mensa International for the Yidan prize earlier this year. With his years-long engagement and NTC system implementation in kindergartens and schools, he positively affects the work of kindergarten teachers, school teachers and pupils’ achievements.

The Mensa International Photographer of the Year 2017 is Dag Thrane, from Mensa Norway, with his entry "Border Wall".

 In second place came Christian von Wechmar, from South Africa,  with Ranko Durovic from Serbia a close third.

An AMAG Kids' Conference ran concurrently with the Asian Mensa Annual Gathering held on Australia's Gold Coast earlier this month.

Nearly two hundred Ms from seventeen different countries celebrated our cultural diversity at the Asian Mensa Annual Gathering (AMAG) this weekend. 

Would you like to visit the only Naval Base in Ireland and the Irish Naval Service? There's a proper Mensa event set up for it, you'll find it in your November Mensa Magazine, first event of a solid weekend of events at Think@Cobh;

The Lord Mayor of Cork, Councillor Tony Fitzgerald visited the Irish Mensa stand at the Cork Adult Education and Training Exhibition; https://twitter.com/IrishMensa/status/905182082208555009

Irish Mensan and Schoolteacher, Sine Friel, speaks about homework on television; https://twitter.com/IrishMensa/status/905190077810298880

We in the Irish Mensa Committee have been working with the Irish Independent in recent days to help them produce this; http://www.pressreader.com/ireland/irish-independent/20170822/282239485…

Irish Mensa continues to be in the news. Chairman Niall MacCaughey on national radio earlier this week; http://www.newstalk.com/listen_back/8/38435/22nd_August_2017_-_Moncrief…

Today marks the beginning of a new term of office for the Executive Committee of Mensa International.

Bibiána Balanyi, of Hungary, retains the office of International Chairman for a second term.

We are happy to announce that Mensa Montenegro has become Full National Mensa.

A new colour around the big international table!

Results of the 2017 American Mensa election have been tabulated and reported. The following candidates have been declared elected and referenda declared approved by the Election Committee:

Registration is open! Please, check emag.mensa.es (or emag2017.mensa.es)

Mensa International Positions/Committees Open for Appointment in 2017

Today we congratulate the members and the board of Mensa Bosnia and Herzegovina

They have just been recognized by ExComm as an Emerging Mensa, after having accomplished all the requirements. 

Logical Olympics organized by Mensa Czech

Hotel Crowne Plaza Palace, Brussels

Saturday 19 of November 2016

from 8h15 to 19h45

2016 marks 50 years of the creation of Mensa Belgium and 70 years of Mensa International.

Mensa Indonesia is currently celebrating its 25th birthday with a huge national gathering.

Congratulations to all Indonesian members for 25 years of growth and development. We hope the next twenty-five years will be as fruitful!

After thirteen years as International Editor Kate Nacard is handing over the reins to Karin Westin Tikkanen from Sweden.

This year’s gathering had participation from every Asian country Korea (7), Japan (6), Singapore (7), Indonesia (7), Malaysia (7), Australia (5), Philippines (2), Hong Kong (4), and host country China (67).  From the rest of the world, we also had visiting members from U.S.

Registration to the 9th year of Logical Olympics closed yesterday. 

Mensa Czech Republic is proud to advise that a record number of participants was achieved again - 
61,451 registered from more than 2900 schools.

Anniversary celebrations for the world’s oldest high IQ society have been given an official “stamp” of approval.

Mensa, which was formed in England on October 1, 1946, celebrates its 70th anniversary on Saturday.

Seven decades of inspiration and intelligence

Mensa celebrates its 70th anniversary

The internet makes it very easy for 'imposters' to give the impression that they represent Mensa when they are not in any way connected to us.

During the ExComm meeting in May, it was acknowledged that both Romania and Slovenia had fulfilled all the requirements necessary to become full national Mensas (FNMs).
Congratulations to both countries. Each will now have a seat on the International Board of Directors.

The Executive Committee of Mensa International met in London on the weekend of 13-14 May.

Our domain has been kidnaped by an expelled member that went rogue. 

Our email isn't working and our website is mensabrasil.ddns.net;

Please contact me: [email protected]

To celebrate Mensa’s 70th anniversary in 2016, two new special commemorative products were launched at the British Mensa annual gathering in Scotland.

As of July 2015, a Hungarian lady is to chair Mensa International, the society which brings together the most intelligent people of the world, with over 130,000 members worldwide. Bibiána Balanyi (42) will serve as Chair of Mensa International for two years, until 2017.

Arlington, Texas (1/30/15) – The Mensa Education & Research Foundation named Dr. Joan Freeman of London, England, the recipient of the 2014 International Lifetime Achievement Award.

To mark Mensa’s 68th birthday on October 1, British Mensa will be celebrating International Intelligence Day by taking to social media to promote all things clever.

Join in using the hashtag #thatsclever to tell us what or who you think epitomises cleverness.

Benjamin Tardif has been appointed President of Mensa France by its Board of Directors. Karine Nzeutem will act as his proxy on the International Board of Directors.

If you have nothing planned for this weekend, pop over to Orebro, where approximately 200 Ms will be attending the Swedish Annuarl Gathering. Starts May 30, finishes June 2.

Today is the anniversary of the founding of Mensa!

The society was founded in Oxford, England on 1 October 1946, by Roland Berrill and Lance Ware after they met by chance on a train.

Happy birthday to Mensans everywhere!

The International Board of Directors of Mensa will be descending on Calgary, Canada next week, the venue for its annual meeting. 

Please note that the Mensa web site is expected to be unavailable from around 13:00 – 15:00 GMT on Wednesday September 4th during the server move.

Mensa International, the international High IQ organisation, would like it to be known that it does not issue lists of Mensa members to the Press or outside Mensa, nor disclose individual IQ scores to anyone.

British Mensa’s Chief Executive John Stevenage will be speaking at IGGY’s Global & Gifted 2013 annual conference on Thursday 4 July.

On Sunday 3rd of March, at 10 hrs Mexico City time (16:00 hrs UTC / GMT),  Mensa Mexico will host an online debate focused on which platform to choose to use online learning purposes: Moodle or Chamilo.

Today is the 66th anniversary of the founding of Mensa!

All around the world national groups are celebrating with special testing days, lectures, events and activities. Why not check out what your national group is doing.

Beautiful, exotic Bali, one of the 30,000 islands in the Republic of Indonesia, hosted the second Asian Mensas Annual Gathering (AMAG) 21-23 September.

The Mensa Academy console game launched today on the Nintendo® Wii™ and 3DS™, and Windows PC platforms.

Members of Mensa Greece have something to celebrate as the group has now been formally recognised as a Full National Mensa by Mensa International.

To achieve this status, Mensa Greece had to fulfill all the requirements set by Mensa International, worked for over a number of years. 

Applying brainpower to the problems of poverty is the main theme of the Asian Mensa Gathering conference, to be held in Bali, Indonesia from 21-23 September 2012.

Mensa will be offering IQ tests all over the world to mark 'Intelligence Day' on October 1st - the anniversary of Mensa's founding.  

A very special event is being put on by Mensa Greece to bring focus to the special needs of gifted children. It takes place at the Megaron Mousikis of Athens (The Athens Concert Hall), on Sunday, 29th April, and runs from 10.00 - 19.45.

During the last hour of the deadline day of 15 March, the 26th applicant to the Leadership Exchange Ambassador Program (LEAP) for 2012 submitted her application. She is from Mensa China.

After achieving a milestone 10,000 members, Mensa Germany's chairman has become only the third national chairman in the society's history to take a seat on the Executive Committee of Mensa International. 

Mensa members in Indonesia have something to celebrate as Mensa Indonesia is recognised as an Emerging National Mensa.  

GTVoice was set up as a network for individuals and organisations with an interest in gifted and talented education in the UK. The network began as a reaction to the reduction of funding provided by the government in the UK for gifted and talented education.

Mensa International's Director of Development Bibiana Balanyi, has announced that Japan Mensa has been granted Full National Mensa status. 

Mensa was founded in Oxford, England on 1st October, 1946.  

In some countries, Silver (25 years), Gold (50) and Diamond (60) anniversaries are perhaps better known than the 65th Brilliant anniversary - but how could Mensa ignore its own Brilliant anniversary?

RESULTS OF THE ELECTION PROCESS FOR OFFICERS OF INTERNATIONAL MENSA 2011

Only one valid nomination for each officer’s post was received by the International Election Committee by the deadline.

The Mensa Brain Test provides genuine Mensa questions of the variety used in official Mensa test papers.

It has been bought out under license to Mensa International, American Mensa and British Mensa by Barnstorm Games. 

Rare film and voice recordings of some of the founders of Mensa feature in a new video created to celebrate 50 years of Mensa in North America.

The third European Mensa Annual Gathering - EMAG - in Prague was a tremendous success!  Around 430 participants from 30 countries and four continents enjoyed some 140 activities over five days - a triumph for the organisers from Mensa Czech Republic, led by chairman Tomas Blumenstein. 

At least 11 national Mensa groups have signed up to take part in the worldwide Intelligence Day through September.

More than 400 Mensans from four continents will gather in Prague tomorrow when the European Mensa Annual Gathering (EMAG) begins.

Every year, some committees and posts come up for renewal.  Applications are invited by July 31 2010 [amended from June 30].

A message from the Chair of Mensa International

British Mensa welcomed Elise Tan-Roberts to Mensa in April, and at 2 years and 4 months she became Mensa’s youngest ever member. 

Contact: Lauren Fernandez
817/607-0060 

Contact: Lauren Fernandez
817/607-0060

Contact: Lauren Fernandez
817/607-0060