British Mensa’s Chief Executive John Stevenage will be speaking at IGGY’s Global & Gifted 2013 annual conference on Thursday 4 July. The conference, running from 3-5 July 2013 at the University of Warwick, focuses on the use of technology in education. It is an international conference designed to bring together teachers, researchers, specialist organisations and professionals working in the field of gifted youth, and educational technologists.
Abi Adekunle, the mother of a young Mensa member has commented that she feels her local council are not doing enough for gifted children.
Her son Shomi, aged 6, began being disruptive at school but after having his IQ tested and scoring in the top two percent it was determined that he was simply bored. Shomi has a reading age of 14 and his mother would like his education to reflect this.
Richard North CEO of Wow! Stuff will be appearing on BBC TWO’s The Apprentice You’re Fired this Wednesday (15 May). North is appearing as a business expert having founded and built up the Wow! Stuff company.
Wow! Stuff are licensed to produce products under the Mensa brand and have developed popular Mensa gifts such as the Brain Trainer and Calendar Challenger. New Mensa products will be launched in September with some stock still remaining in the Mensa Shop.
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.
Simply book to attend a Mensa IQ test session where you will discover your official IQ score and you will receive a unique code enabling you to complete the personality indicator online in your own time.
Once you have completed the personality indicator, your results are e-mailed directly back to you.
The new series of Channel 4’s Child Genius will hit our television screens on Tuesday 11 June at 9pm. This 4-part documentary series follows the lives of some of the country’s cleverest children and their families. Earlier this year, twenty one highly gifted children aged 7 to 11 were selected to take part in a competition run to find the UK’s Child Genius.
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.
John Stevenage, Chief Executive of British Mensa said‘at Mensa we would support any initiative that gives better assistance to bright children. Gifted children should be provided with the appropriate resources to learn and achieve their potential.’
Last night (Tuesday 2 July) Shrinidhi Prakash became the winner of Channel 4’s Child Genius. She took part in four rounds of competition which included logic, mathematics, spelling and debating.
Aged 11 Shrinidhi is a fan of Countdown and the World Under-12 Scrabble Champion. She currently lives in Orpington, Kent and enjoys writing novels in her spare time and attends an after-school creative writing group. She describes herself as ‘bookworm, Artemis Fowl fan, word fanatic, professional scrabble player, writer and poet.'
We can’t believe it is our 33rd year but today (26 July) we kicked off our annual Mensa at Cambridge weekend. This year we’re at the historic Trinity College, which was founded by Henry VIII in 1546. For over 400 years Trinity College has been a place for those seeking knowledge to flourish and we’ve done our upmost to provide a programme to suit the setting.
Our second annual Young Mensans Future Paths conference took place at Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford on Saturday 27 July 2013. Yet again it was a sell out with young members and their families travelling from across the British Isles to discover more about Higher Education.
Friday 2 August 2013 saw some of our sporting members take to the green for the annual Mensa Golf Championship. This year we were at The Bankhouse Hotel & Golf Club near Worcester which is famous for its Florida style course – i.e. lots of water hazards!
After practicing their drive and relaxing with a cuppa members teed off in groups of 3 or 4 to spend the day navigating their way around the challenging 18 holes. In the evening they attended a three course awards dinner where they could relive their best putts and disastrous shots into the rough.
This year’s Annual Gathering is taking place in York (20-23 September) and our organisers are getting in the spirit, giving the Official York t-shirts a trial run.
Find out more and book for the Annual Gathering in the events sections. Plus pre-order your official t-shirt. (Members, guest members and international members only).
Pictured L-R Susan Luke, Chenda Appleyard & Richard Arthurs.
The British Mensa Annual Gathering 2013 is taking place in York, based at the Park Inn Hotel on the River Ouse. This morning (Friday 20 September) saw our first of 300+ guests arrive.
Activities this weekend include trips to Jorvik Viking Centre & the National Railway Museum, intellectual talks, opportunities to enter games competitions, a Golden Gala Dinner and much more...
Over 300 Mensans visited York last weekend (20-23 September) for the society’s Annual Gathering. The event has grown over the years from a social meeting to coincide with the official AGM to a full weekend of talks, walks, excursions and much more. In recent years host cities have included Belfast, Coventry, Chester and Bristol, as the event continues to move around the British Isles. Next year we’re already signed up for Cardiff.
Production company Wall to Wall is once again searching for the country’s brightest young minds to take part (with their families) in a documentary series to be shown on Channel 4. The series will feature competition rounds devised in association with British Mensa and other leading children’s education experts, along with documentary filming that explores the joys and challenges of parenting a gifted child, approaches to education and what it means to be a high-achieving child in Britain today.
Mensa, the High IQ Society, is 67 today! The society was formed by Roland Berrill, a barrister, and Dr Lance Ware, a scientist and lawyer.
The story goes that in 1946 they met on a train journey in England and developed the idea of forming a society for bright people, the only qualification for membership of which was a high IQ. The Society has now grown to over 110,000 members around the world.
Find out more about us and meet our members.
Today (9 October) saw the launch of the Wolverhampton Edition of the classic board game Monopoly which features 22 city landmarks including British Mensa. John Stevenage, CEO, attended the launch at Wolverhampton Grammar School (pictured) with representatives of other landmarks on the board.
Although British Mensa has over 21,000 members across the British Isles they have a long association with Wolverhampton. Their headquarters have been based in city for many years, with the majority of their staff hailing from the local area.
Jenny Gill and Kester Leek joined British Mensa’s Board of Directors following the society’s AGM on Saturday 21 September, which was held in York.
Jenny, who lives in Huddersfield, has been a member of Mensa since 1989 and has been involved in the production of Mensa’s membership publications since 2001. Firstly as a regional newsletter editor, a role she continues to fulfil, and also 8 years as the society’s Editorial Representative, guiding the style and content of its main publication Mensa Magazine.
Maxine Bates reports from the first Beauty Science Day…
“The first Beauty Science Day was hosted by Empirical Science Ltd on the site of Boots headquarters in Nottingham on Saturday 19th October and attracted Mensa members and their families from as far as Hampshire, Essex and Shropshire. It was good to see that 20% of participants were aged under 18. Our scientists of the future!
The annual Mensa Games Finals took place in Birmingham from Friday 25 October to Sunday 27 October 2013. The finals are a culmination of a year’s gaming by Mensans and are often fiercely contested.
Highlights included the Brain of Mensa final which saw 4 opponents battle it out with some tough quiz questions and the Mensa Connections 10th British Open Championships.
