Mensa is the largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world. It is a non-profit organization open to people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardized, supervised IQ or other approved intelligence test.
Today, there are around 134,000 members of Mensa in chapters found in 100 countries around the world.
The largest yearly confab of Mensans anywhere, the American Mensa Annual Gathering started as a small, two-day meet-and-greet at the New York Belmont in 1963. The event now spans five days and features a sprawl of talks, games, and entertainment unlike any other.
Like many Mensa members, when Adam Kirby joined British Mensa he enjoyed reading Shakespeare and learning languages – an entirely unremarkable piece of information if it wasn’t for his age. Kirby was just two years and five months old when he joined British Mensa in 2013. According to a Daily Mail report, the toddler scored 141 on the Stanford-Binet IQ test – four points below the ‘genius’ threshold. If you’re wondering just what a highly intelligent two-year old can do, at 29 months Kirby could read at the level of an average five-year old, spell more than 100 words, count to 1000 and perform simple addition and subtraction.
What: American Mensa annual gathering
When: July 3-7, 2024
Where: Kansas City, Missouri
Homepage
https://www.facebook.com/AmericanMensa/
