National Events Calendar
American Mensa offers a wide array of events to satisfy the interests of our diverse membership. Check the calendar for the next Regional Gathering, Mind Games®, or American Mensa Committee meeting.
Happening this week
- Virtual Discussion Group
- Virtual meeting
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Starts
May 4, 2024
2:00 PM GMT-12:00Ends
May 4, 2024
3:30 PM GMT-12:00 - More Information Add to Calendar
- NNEMAP Food Pantry Event
- Community Event
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Join Columbus Area Mensa on May 4 from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. at the NNEMAP Food Pantry as they volunteer to stock shelves, hand out food, and other assorted duties.
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Starts
May 4, 2024
10:00 AM GMT-06:00Ends
May 4, 2024
1:00 PM GMT-06:00 - More Information Add to Calendar
- Mensa Virtual Bible Study
- Virtual meeting
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Starts
May 5, 2024
7:00 PM GMT-12:00Ends
May 5, 2024
8:00 PM GMT-12:00 - More Information Add to Calendar
Discover upcoming events
- OMG! Outdoor Mensa Gathering
- Fun & Frivolity
- Central Indiana Mensa
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Starts
May 17, 2024
4:00 PM GMT-06:00Ends
May 19, 2024
11:00 AM GMT-06:00 - More Information Add to Calendar
- Many Modes of Mind Virtual Discussion
- Virtual meeting
- San Francisco Regional Mensa
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Join in the discussion as our panel of four current science fiction writers discusses multiple possibilities in the realm of communication with beings sharing our world — and those that we may meet in our future explorations.
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May 19, 2024
2:30 PM GMT-06:00Ends
May 19, 2024
5:00 PM GMT-06:00 - More Information Add to Calendar
- Irish Mensa Lecture and Discussion: The Maths of Board Games
- Virtual meeting
- No group assigned
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Starts
May 20, 2024
7:00 PM GMT-06:00Ends
May 20, 2024
9:00 PM GMT-06:00 - More Information Add to Calendar
- San Diego uRGe 2024
- Regional Gathering
- San Diego Mensa
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Join us May 24-27 at the Holiday Inn San Diego Bayside, for San Diego uRGe 2024!
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Starts
May 24, 2024
4:00 PM GMT-06:00Ends
May 27, 2024
12:00 PM GMT-06:00 - More Information Add to Calendar
- MHM Games Day
- Regional Gathering
- Mid-Hudson Mensa
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Starts
May 25, 2024
12:00 PM GMT-06:00Ends
May 25, 2024
11:55 PM GMT-06:00 - More Information Add to Calendar
- Theodore Talk: Rags To Bebop: The Swinging Sounds Of Kansas City
- Virtual meeting
- No group assigned
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Chuck Haddix, Director of the Marr Sound Archives, will describe, through historic photos and recordings, what these halcyon days of Kansas City Jazz were like.
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Starts
May 26, 2024
2:30 PM GMT-06:00Ends
May 26, 2024
4:00 PM GMT-06:00 - More Information Add to Calendar
- The Mind & The Sense of Smell Virtual Discussion
- Virtual meeting
- San Francisco Regional Mensa
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How do we keep our memory alive and engaged as we age in the 21st century? Join us for an interactive session to explore how the sense of smell solidifies memories and helps keep a strong connection to our world.
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June 9, 2024
2:30 PM GMT-06:00Ends
June 9, 2024
5:00 PM GMT-06:00 - More Information Add to Calendar
- Mensa Connect Leadership Development Workshop
- Leadership Workshop
- No group assigned
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Starts
June 10, 2024
6:00 PM GMT-08:00Ends
June 10, 2024
7:30 PM GMT-08:00 - More Information Add to Calendar
- Theodore Talk: Bottoms Up! A History and Revitalization of a Cocksure Era Spirit
- Virtual meeting
- No group assigned
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This presentation will highlight the unique spirit and history of Kansas City's West Bottoms area and the West Bottom Whiskey Company, located near the 2024 AG site.
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Starts
June 23, 2024
2:30 PM GMT-06:00Ends
June 23, 2024
4:00 PM GMT-06:00 - More Information Add to Calendar
- Region 3 - Mini RG
- Regional Gathering
- Dayton Area Mensa
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Region 3 welcomes everyone to their 2nd Annual Young's Jersey Dairy Mini-RG. Everything is included in the price, so bring your appetites for food, ice cream, and fun outdoor activities.
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Starts
June 23, 2024
1:00 PM GMT-06:00Ends
June 23, 2024
9:00 PM GMT-06:00 - More Information Add to Calendar
- Annual Gathering 2024
- National Meeting
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Join us for the Annual Gathering 2024, July 3-7 at the Sheraton/Westin Kansas City Crown Center in Kansas City, Mo.! Watch your inbox for your invitation to register.
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Starts
July 3, 2024Ends
July 7, 2024 - More Information Add to Calendar
- American Mensa Committee Meeting
- National Meeting
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A meeting of the American Mensa Committee will be held at the Annual Gathering in Kansas City on Thursday, July 4, starting at 10 a.m., Central time.
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Starts
July 4, 2024
10:00 AM GMT-06:00Ends
July 4, 2024
5:00 PM GMT-06:00 - More Information Add to Calendar
- Annual Business Meeting
- National Meeting
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The Annual Business Meeting will take place on July 5 at the Annual Gathering in Kansas City and will be a hybrid meeting to include a video component.
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July 5, 2024Ends
July 5, 2024 - More Information Add to Calendar
- Testing Real Life Superpowers Virtual Discussion
- Virtual meeting
- San Francisco Regional Mensa
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Millions believe in the alleged ability to read minds, see into the future, move objects through mental processes, and more. But are these abilities real? Tune in as Jim Underdown from the Center for Inquiry Investigations describes the processes and detail-specific methods he and the CFI Investigations Group employ when designing scientifically controlled tests.
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Starts
July 21, 2024
2:30 PM GMT-06:00Ends
July 21, 2024
5:00 PM GMT-06:00 - More Information Add to Calendar
- Theodore Talk: A Horological Discourse: Mechanism, Risk and Wonder
- Virtual meeting
- No group assigned
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Through examining the connections between a diverse set of objects, we will trace the story of craft and the science of horology, demonstrating its pivotal role in design through the ages and why their preservation is vital to our future.
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Starts
July 28, 2024
2:30 PM GMT-06:00Ends
July 28, 2024
4:00 PM GMT-06:00 - More Information Add to Calendar
- Pandemic 2024: SO VERY LIT!
- Regional Gathering
- Metropolitan Washington Mensa
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We're looking forward to Pandemic (Metropolitan Washington Mensa's Regional Gathering)! We're back, after taking a year off to host the AG in Baltimore, and Pandemic is moving back to the beautiful Hilton Dulles and will be held from August 16 through 18. Our theme this year is So Very Lit! ... exploring themed programming, hospitality, and games connecting us to written work.
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Starts
August 16, 2024
4:00 PM GMT-06:00Ends
August 18, 2024
1:00 PM GMT-06:00 - More Information Add to Calendar
- AI and Society Virtual Discussion
- Virtual meeting
- San Francisco Regional Mensa
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Tune in to learn how AI is changing the way governments, companies, and individuals behave. By choosing the right sort of architectures for AI and for data, we can make this transition much safer and more likely to produce a healthy society.
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Starts
August 18, 2024
2:30 PM GMT-06:00Ends
August 18, 2024
5:00 PM GMT-06:00 - More Information Add to Calendar
- Theodore Talk: Resisting Misinformation
- Virtual meeting
- No group assigned
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Dr. Jevin West, Associate Professor at the University of Washington's Information School, will address some of the new challenges of generative misinformation and potential next steps to resist manipulation.
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Starts
August 25, 2024
2:30 PM GMT-06:00Ends
August 25, 2024
4:00 PM GMT-06:00 - More Information Add to Calendar
- Rivers 3 RG
- Regional Gathering
- Western Pennsylvania Mensa
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Starts
August 30, 2024
4:00 PM GMT-05:00Ends
September 2, 2024
1:00 PM GMT-05:00 - More Information Add to Calendar
- RechaRGe
- Regional Gathering
- Mensa of Northeastern New York
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Starts
August 30, 2024
3:00 PM GMT-06:00Ends
September 2, 2024
11:00 AM GMT-06:00 - More Information Add to Calendar
- HELL's M's Party at Sea in the Baltic
- Local Group Meeting
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HELL's M's is going on a Party at Sea – in the Baltic – on Norwegian Cruise Lines on the Norwegian Dawn. Enjoy a 10 night trip with 10 port days. Explore the Baltic with a bunch of M friends.
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Starts
September 5, 2024
11:00 AM GMT-06:00Ends
September 15, 2024
10:00 AM GMT-06:00 - More Information Add to Calendar
- American Mensa Committee Meeting
- National Meeting
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A meeting of the American Mensa Committee will be held at the National Office in Hurst, TX, Sept. 20-21, starting at 10 a.m., Central time.
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Starts
September 20, 2024
10:00 AM GMT-06:00Ends
September 21, 2024
5:00 PM GMT-06:00 - More Information Add to Calendar
- Theodore Talk: No Way Out: Xi's Determination to Re-take Taiwan and America's Predicament
- Virtual meeting
- No group assigned
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Dr. John H. Modinger, retired U.S.A.F. pilot and Associate Professor at the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff College, discusses the likelihood of a direct Chinese attack on Taiwan and what the implications would be on a global scale.
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Starts
September 22, 2024
2:30 PM GMT-06:00Ends
September 22, 2024
4:00 PM GMT-06:00 - More Information Add to Calendar
- Peachtreat 2024
- Regional Gathering
- Mensa In Georgia
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Starts
September 27, 2024
4:00 PM GMT-06:00Ends
September 29, 2024
1:00 PM GMT-06:00 - More Information Add to Calendar
- Theodore Talk: Above and Beyond: The James Webb Space Telescope
- Virtual meeting
- No group assigned
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Goddard Space Flight Center astrophysicist Matt Greenhouse will discuss the science instrument payload package of the James Webb Space Telescope and how these instruments are being used to accomplish the JWST mission and goals.
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Starts
October 27, 2024
2:30 PM GMT-06:00Ends
October 27, 2024
4:00 PM GMT-06:00 - More Information Add to Calendar
- American Mensa Committee Meeting
- National Meeting
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A virtual meeting of the American Mensa Committee will be held on Saturday, Dec. 7, starting at 10 a.m., Central time.
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Starts
December 7, 2024
10:00 AM GMT-06:00Ends
December 7, 2024
5:00 PM GMT-06:00 - More Information Add to Calendar