George Symeounides, a member of Mensa Cyprus, has entered the race for a place in the L.S.A. Lynx Space Academy, the opportunity for an ordinary person to go into space.
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Send a Mensan into Space!
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Mensa Academy App offer – limited period!
The Mensa Academy App is currently available at just 69p on iOS devices such as the iPhone and iPad.
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NEW! Download Mensa Academy to your Kindle Fire
Kindle Fire users can now download the Mensa Academy game from the app store...
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What is Mensa Magazine?
One of the many benefits of being a Mensa member is the monthly Mensa Magazine.
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Global & Gifted
British Mensas Chief Executive John Stevenage will be speaking at IGGYs Global & Gifted 2013 annual conference on Thursday 4 July.
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Mother calls for more support for gifted children
Abi Adekunle, the mother of a young Mensa member has commented that she feels her local council are not doing enough for gifted children.
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Mensa puzzle product man on BBC TWO
Richard North CEO of Wow! Stuff will be appearing on BBC TWOs The Apprentice Youre Fired this Wednesday (15 May).
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Special Offer – Free Personality Profile
When booking to attend a Mensa IQ Test Session you will also have the opportunity to complete a Type Dynamic Indicator (TDI) assessment and receive your Personality Profile for free.
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Child Genius is back on Channel 4
The new series of Channel 4s Child Genius will hit our television screens on Tuesday 11 June at 9pm.
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Are we failing the brightest school pupils?
The Chief Inspector of Schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw today (13 June) announced that he believed that there was a failure by state schools to nurture their brightest pupils. Ofsted has suggested that schools place more of an emphasis on developing their brightest pupils.
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Congratulations to Ch4’s Child Genius winner
Last night (Tuesday 2 July) Shrinidhi Prakash became the winner of Channel 4s Child Genius
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British Mensa’s youngest ever member
Thu, 30/04/2009
British Mensa welcomed Elise Tan-Roberts to Mensa in April, and at 2 years and 4 months she became Mensa’s youngest ever member.
Elise, from London, was assessed by Child Psychologist Professor Joan Freeman who has worked with gifted children since the mid-1970s. As Mensa can only test people over the age of ten and a half Elise was accepted via a prior evidence application which confirmed that her IQ score is within the top two percent of the population.
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British Mensa Welcomes Youngest Boy - Oscar Wrigley
Mon, 12/10/2009
In August, at 2 years 5 months Oscar Wrigley became the youngest ever boy to become a member of British Mensa. Oscar of Reading, Berkshire, was found to have an IQ score in the top two percent of the population after being assessed by Consultant Educational Psychologist, Dr Peter Congdon.
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Mensa’s Gifted Child Consultant to deliver workshop in Warwick
Fri, 08/06/2012
Mensa’s Gifted Child Consultant, Lyn Kendall, will be running a workshop at the University of Warwick’s Global & Gifted Conference 2012. The event, lead by the University’s International Gateway for Gifted Youth network, takes place on Wednesday 4 July 2012.
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We have a winner!
Mon, 07/01/2013
Elaine Newington-Ward has won a competition to provide an emblem for British Mensa’s Annual Gathering 2013, which will take place in York this September.
Her logo (pictured) depicts the history of York – a Viking helmet, the white rose within a Roman shield, a steam train, a tower from York Minster and Clifford’s Tower.
The winner was chosen by Sir Ron Cooke, a leading academic in Yorkshire who said the design neatly illustrates the best features of the city.
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The National Association for Gifted Children Changes its Name
Mon, 04/02/2013
After 46 years, The National Association for Children, the child and family support charity, changed its name yesterday (4 February 2013) to Potential Plus UK.
At its formal launch, held at Reed Smith in the City of London, Denise Yates, Chief Executive of the newly named organisation said:
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Meet 3 year old Mensan Alice...
Thu, 07/02/2013
Alice Amos joined Mensa at the age of three in January. She was offered membership after her parents submitted copy of a report from Professor Joan Freeman demonstrating that Alice had an IQ in the top two percent of the population; scoring 162 on the Stanford Binet test.
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NEW! Download Mensa Academy to your Kindle Fire
Wed, 27/03/2013
Kindle Fire users can now download the Mensa Academy game from the app store – priced at just £2.99.
Mensa Academy is already a bestseller for iOS users. Mensa Academy features 100s of tantalising puzzles in four main categories - Numeracy, Language, Logic, Memory, and Visual.
Mensa Academy is also available for the Nintendo Wii, Nintendo DS, PC, Xbox Live and PlayStation Network.
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What is Mensa Magazine?
Thu, 28/03/2013
One of the many benefits of being a Mensa member is the monthly Mensa Magazine. The magazine is packed full of debate, intelligent features, member stories, reviews and event listings. Plus, it is accompanied by a Regional Newsletter.
In the latest edition member events such as the Science & Arts Days are previewed, Mensans including a soldier are interviewed, a sleep & dreams expert talks about the mysteries of sleep, and the media’s reaction to young people with a high IQ is discussed.
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Send a Mensan into Space!
Mon, 08/04/2013
George Symeounides, a member of Mensa Cyprus, has entered the race for a place in the L.S.A. Lynx Space Academy, the opportunity for an ordinary person to go into space. He needs you to vote for him to advance to the next stage.
Chair of Mensa Cyprus, Christina Angelidou, says: “It would be very interesting to send a Mensan into space. We’ll need to keep George in the first 200 candidates when voting ends on the 30th of April. Please vote for George Symeonides to go into space!”
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