Tuesday, July 02, 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM

Registration (Colloquium Only)

Room: Hallway outside Westin: Century Ballroom

Tuesday, July 02, 8:45 AM - 9:30 AM

Mensa Foundation Colloquium 2024 - Panel Discussion: The Lived Experience of Giftedness in the Workplace

Room: Westin: Century Ballroom

Tuesday, July 02, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM

Mensa Foundation Colloquium 2024 - Great Minds at Work: Maximizing Success

Room: Westin: Century Ballroom

Tuesday, July 02, 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Mensa Foundation Colloquium 2024 - Career Exploration for Gifted Individuals

Room: Westin: Century Ballroom

Tuesday, July 02, 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM

Mensa Foundation Colloquium 2024 - Career Development for Gifted Social Entrepreneurs

Room: Westin: Century Ballroom

Tuesday, July 02, 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Mensa Foundation Colloquium 2024 - Finding Your Best Fit: How Gifted Adults Choose Their Career

Room: Westin: Century Ballroom

Tuesday, July 02, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Mensa Foundation Colloquium 2024 - Panel Discussion

Room: Westin: Century Ballroom

Tuesday, July 02, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

AG Registration

Room: Sheraton: The Terrace

Wednesday, July 03, 12:00 PM - 9:00 PM

AG Registration

Room: Sheraton: The Terrace

Wednesday, July 03, 1:30 PM

Debate Room—Election 2024 Predictions

Room: Westin: Pershing Place West

Friends of Bill W.

Room: Westin: Pershing Place East

Gen Y SIG Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Pershing Place North/South

Kansas City and All That Jazz

Room: Sheraton: Atlanta

L. Frank Baum: The Wizard Behind Oz

Room: Sheraton: New York B

The Art of a Cyber Nostradamus: Risk Prediction, Trivia Edition

Room: Sheraton: Chicago C

The World's Worst Problems

Room: Sheraton: Chicago A/B

Wednesday, July 03, 3:00 PM

Debate Room—Electoral College

Room: Westin: Pershing Place West

Eugenics: Perfecting (a small portion of) The Human Race

Room: Sheraton: Chicago A/B

Gen Z Ms Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Pershing Place North/South

Level Up! Making Time to Develop Your People with Care and Candor

Room: Sheraton: Chicago C

M-etphysical SIG Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Pershing Place East

Polyamory, Swinging, and Open Relationships: Questions, Answers, and Discussion of Ethical Nonmonogamy

Room: Sheraton: New York A

Region 3 Round Table and Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Liberty

Region 4 Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Mission/Shawnee

Sexual Peculiarities of the Ancient Greeks and Romans

Room: Sheraton: Atlanta

The History of Negro League Baseball

Room: Sheraton: New York B

Wednesday, July 03, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Mexican Train Dominoes Tournament

Room: Sheraton: Gillham Hall

Wednesday, July 03, 4:30 PM

AZA Zoos and Aquariums: Leaders in Conservation

Room: Sheraton: New York A

Debate Room—Escape from “Lesser of Two Evils” Voting

Room: Westin: Pershing Place West

Gen X SIG Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Pershing Place North/South

Kansas City, Kansas: A Typical Ku Klux Klan Town of the 1920s

Room: Sheraton: New York B

Proctor Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Pershing Place East

Region 6 Round Table and Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Liberty

Secret Kansas City: Mountains Out of Molehills

Room: Sheraton: Chicago A/B

Strategic Planning for Local Groups

Room: Westin: Mission/Shawnee

What Once Was Lost: Nazi Art Looting and the Monuments Men at the Nelson-Atkins

Room: Sheraton: Atlanta

Wednesday, July 03, 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Registration for the Mensa Admission Test

Room: Westin: Roanoke

Wednesday, July 03, 6:00 PM

Meet & Greet for Conservative Ms

Room: Westin: Pershing Place East

The World Through Data – The Data Revolution and its Impact on Human Kind

Room: Sheraton: New York B

Wednesday, July 03, 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Open Live Music Room

Room: Sheraton: Chicago C

Wednesday, July 03, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Charades

Room: Sheraton: Gillham Hall

Wednesday, July 03, 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Name That Movie

Room: Sheraton: New York B

Wednesday, July 03, 9:00 PM - 10:15 PM

HELL's M's Prequel

Room: Westin: Pershing Place North/South

Thursday, July 04, 7:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Breakfast in Hospitality

Room: Sheraton: Exhibit Hall A

Thursday, July 04, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

AG Registration

Room: Sheraton: The Terrace

Thursday, July 04, 9:00 AM

A FEAST OF WORDS with Richard Lederer

Room: Sheraton: Atlanta

Anthropology's Original Sin: Museums, Zoos and the Human Condition

Room: Sheraton: New York B

Environmental Disaster in the Nation's Heartland: Tar Creek and the Ghost Town of Picher Oklahoma

Room: Sheraton: Chicago A/B

How the Holocaust Relates to Issues of Today

Room: Sheraton: New York A

Isolated M SIG Family Reunion

Room: Westin: Pershing Place West

Nerdy Yoga with Jedi Master Mensa!

Room: Westin: Pershing Place North/South

Sew Sew SeaMs Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Pershing Place East

Thursday, July 04, 10:30 AM

A Brief History of Games - from Ancient to Modern and In-Between

Room: Sheraton: Chicago C

Evangelical Christianity SIG Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Pershing Place North/South

Happy Feet, Happy Dancing, Happy Mensans!

Room: Westin: Century Ballroom

How and Why You Need To Prepare for a Disaster

Room: Sheraton: New York B

Learn to Knit

Room: Westin: Pershing Place East

Lessons in Resilience from the Hanoi Hilton: Never Give Up; Never Give In

Room: Sheraton: Atlanta

Six Degrees of Separation: How Everything is Connected

Room: Sheraton: New York A

What Really Happened? Quantrill’s Raid on Lawrence, Kansas: Revisiting the Evidence

Room: Sheraton: Chicago A/B

Widowed Ms Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Pershing Place West

Thursday, July 04, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Lunch in Hospitality

Room: Sheraton: Exhibit Hall A

Thursday, July 04, 12:00 PM

Don't Fall for Scams and Spam — Protecting Your Computer and Personal Information

Room: Sheraton: Atlanta

Farmers and Climate Change

Room: Sheraton: Chicago A/B

Fun with Improv — An Interactive Audience Participation Session

Room: Sheraton: New York B

How to Be More Convincing: Applying Monroe's Motivated Sequence in Your Everyday Life

Room: Sheraton: New York A

Online Boardgaming SIG Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Pershing Place West

Schooling SIG Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Pershing Place East

Unchallenging Classes + Current Identification Methods = Overlooked Giftedness. Altering the Equation With Evidence-Based Disruptions

Room: Sheraton: Chicago C

WebHeads SIG Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Pershing Place North/South

Thursday, July 04, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

American Mensa Committee (AMC) Meeting

Room: Westin: Liberty

Thursday, July 04, 1:30 PM

Being a LocSec

Room: Westin: Pershing Place East

Beyond Burnout: Mastering Wellness in Everyday Life

Room: Sheraton: Chicago C

Dances With Words

Room: Sheraton: Atlanta

Debate Room—The Gig Economy

Room: Westin: Pershing Place West

Gig'M SIG Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Pershing Place North/South

Life and Music of George Gershwin

Room: Sheraton: New York A

Medical AI: Examples, Opportunities, and Cautionary Tales

Room: Sheraton: Chicago A/B

Professional Conduct on the Battlefield: Lessons from the Vietnam My Lai Tragedy and Reforms Thereafter

Room: Sheraton: New York B

Thursday, July 04, 3:00 PM

A Brief History of Vaccinology

Room: Sheraton: New York A

An Astronomer/Astronaut's Journey – How a Kid from Kansas Went from the Great Plains to the Great Space Observatories

Room: Sheraton: Atlanta

Beyond the Microscope: Identifying Microorganisms Then and Now

Room: Sheraton: Chicago A/B

Debate Room—Unrest in the Middle-East

Room: Westin: Pershing Place West

Disnerd Ms Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Pershing Place North/South

Level Up! Turning Vision Into Value

Room: Sheraton: Chicago C

M-Available Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Pershing Place East

The Electoral College: Past, Present, Future

Room: Sheraton: New York B

Thursday, July 04, 3:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Jigsaw Puzzle Tournament

Room: Sheraton: Gillham Hall

Thursday, July 04, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Mensa Foundation Scholarship Chairs and Judges Meet & Greet

Room: Sheraton: Van Horn AB

Thursday, July 04, 4:30 PM

Brain Energy and Aging in Alzheimer’s Disease

Room: Sheraton: Chicago C

Debate Room—Trans-Gender Sports

Room: Westin: Pershing Place West

Game Theory Experiments

Room: Sheraton: New York A

PolyaMorySIG Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Pershing Place North/South

Songwriting SIG Song Circle

Room: Westin: Pershing Place East

The Birth, Growth & Demise of Kansas City's Crime Family

Room: Sheraton: Atlanta

Your Space-Enabled Life

Room: Sheraton: New York B

Thursday, July 04, 6:00 PM

Friends of Bill W.

Room: Westin: Pershing Place East

New and Improved Super Joke-Off

Room: Sheraton: Atlanta

Thursday, July 04, 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Dominion Tournament

Room: Sheraton: Gillham Hall

Thursday, July 04, 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Open Live Music Room

Room: Sheraton: Chicago C

Thursday, July 04, 7:30 PM - 8:45 PM

Bill Shipper Concert

Room: Sheraton: Atlanta

Thursday, July 04, 9:00 PM - 11:59 PM

Go Fourth and Dance!

Room: Westin: Century Ballroom

Thursday, July 04, 10:00 PM - 11:59 PM

Werewolves

Room: Sheraton: Gillham Hall

Friday, July 05, 7:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Breakfast in Hospitality

Room: Sheraton: Exhibit Hall A

Friday, July 05, 8:30 AM - 8:00 PM

AG Registration

Room: Sheraton: The Terrace

Friday, July 05, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Annual Business Meeting

Room: Sheraton: Chicago A/B

Friday, July 05, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Boggle Tournament

Room: Sheraton: Gillham Hall

Friday, July 05, 10:30 AM

Conquistadors in Kansas

Room: Sheraton: Atlanta

Escaping the Nazis: The Untold Story of the Kindertransport From Someone Who Was on the Train

Room: Sheraton: New York B

Exercising Indigenuity in the Anthropocene

Room: Sheraton: Chicago C

Intertel Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Pershing Place East

K.C.C.C. (Kansas City Cryptic Crawl)

Room: Westin: Pershing Place North/South

The Practical, Real-World Use Cases of AI and How to Use It to Benefit Our Lives and Businesses

Room: Sheraton: New York A

Friday, July 05, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Lunch in Hospitality

Room: Sheraton: Exhibit Hall A

Friday, July 05, 12:00 PM

DARN! The Coffee Algorithm — Transforming Conflict & Strife Into Innovation & Opportunity

Room: Sheraton: New York A

EPGSIG Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Pershing Place North/South

Friends of Bill W.

Room: Westin: Pershing Place West

Knit-SIG Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Pershing Place East

Region 1 Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Liberty

Say Goodbye to Hollywood: 10 Things YOU CAN’T DO in Show Business

Room: Sheraton: Chicago A/B

Subliminal Advertising — Real or Myth?

Room: Sheraton: New York B

Who Gives a Hoot: Neurodiversity for the Naysayer

Room: Sheraton: Chicago C

Friday, July 05, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Ticket to Ride Tournament

Room: Sheraton: Gillham Hall

Friday, July 05, 1:30 PM

Debate Room—Affordable Housing

Room: Westin: Pershing Place West

Editors Roundtable

Room: Westin: Mission/Shawnee

Fighting for Equality: Women’s Suffrage in Kansas

Room: Sheraton: New York A

Gifted Youth Leaders and Volunteers Roundtable

Room: Westin: Liberty

HELL's M's Meeting

Room: Westin: Pershing Place North/South

Kansas’ Music History

Room: Sheraton: Chicago A/B

Meet the Beatles You Thought You Knew

Room: Sheraton: New York B

Musical Theater Ms Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Pershing Place East

Thinking Creatively with a Sesame Street Muppet and a Social Worker

Room: Sheraton: Atlanta

Friday, July 05, 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM

Trash Bowl 2024

Room: Westin: Century Ballroom

Friday, July 05, 3:00 PM

Come On Down

Room: Sheraton: Chicago A/B

Debate Room—A.I. Futures

Room: Westin: Pershing Place West

HELL's M's Party at Sea in the Baltic

Room: Westin: Pershing Place North/South

Level Up! Caring for Self and Others

Room: Sheraton: Chicago C

M-Cats Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Pershing Place East

Region 7 Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Mission/Shawnee

Region 8 Round Table and Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Liberty

Sustainability Superstar: Sweden's Race Towards Zero Waste

Room: Sheraton: New York B

The Einstein Effect: How the World’s Favorite Genius Got Into Our Cars, Our Bathrooms and Our Minds

Room: Sheraton: Atlanta

The Wonderful World of Pun Competitions — A Modest Travelogue

Room: Sheraton: New York A

Friday, July 05, 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Carnelli

Room: Sheraton: Gillham Hall

Friday, July 05, 4:30 PM

ChatGPT or Academic Scientist? AI Detection with Over 99% Accuracy

Room: Sheraton: Atlanta

Debate Room—Immigration, Local

Room: Westin: Pershing Place West

Firehouse SIG Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Pershing Place North/South

Membership Officers Roundtable

Room: Westin: Mission/Shawnee

Presentation Karaoke

Room: Sheraton: Chicago C

Scientific Study of the Social Life of Language

Room: Sheraton: New York A

Siblings: Bullying, Betrayal and Bonding Across the Lifespan

Room: Sheraton: Chicago A/B

The Accelerating Expanding Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and Einstein’s Cosmological Constant

Room: Sheraton: New York B

The New Scholarship Program: Learn About Upcoming Changes

Room: Westin: Liberty

Friday, July 05, 6:00 PM

Corkscrew Follies: A Compendium of Catastrophic Theme Park Fails

Room: Sheraton: Atlanta

Kansas Myths, Legends, and Folktales

Room: Sheraton: New York A

L'ChaiM! SIG Welcomes the Sabbath

Room: Westin: Pershing Place North/South

The Evolution of Audacity: From Bach to Gershwin

Room: Sheraton: New York B

Friday, July 05, 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Open Live Music Room

Room: Sheraton: Chicago C

Friday, July 05, 8:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Misster Mensa

Room: Westin: Century Ballroom

Friday, July 05, 10:00 PM - 11:30 PM

Intoxicating Interests

Room: Sheraton: Atlanta

Saturday, July 06, 7:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Breakfast in Hospitality

Room: Sheraton: Exhibit Hall A

Saturday, July 06, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

AG Registration

Room: Sheraton: The Terrace

Saturday, July 06, 9:00 AM

​KC and the Sunshine Writers

Room: Westin: Pershing Place East

A Hitchhiker's Guide to Black Holes

Room: Sheraton: Atlanta

From Outreach to Ownership: Attracting Members

Room: Westin: Mission/Shawnee

Petroglyphs of Central Kansas

Room: Sheraton: New York B

Region 9 Round Table and Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Liberty

The Women of Brown: Reclaiming Their Rightful Place in History

Room: Sheraton: Chicago A/B

Saturday, July 06, 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Registration for the Mensa Admission Test

Room: Westin: Roanoke

Saturday, July 06, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Sudoku

Room: Sheraton: Gillham Hall

Saturday, July 06, 10:30 AM

Becoming a More Mindful Leader

Room: Sheraton: New York A

I Was a Hostage in Iran For 444 Days. This is My Story.

Room: Sheraton: Atlanta

Level Up! Creating Organizational Culture

Room: Sheraton: Chicago C

M/I Military Veterans Forum SIG Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Pershing Place North/South

Region 2 Round Table and Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Liberty

Region 5 Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Mission/Shawnee

Revisiting the Oregon Trail

Room: Sheraton: New York B

Say Goodbye to Earth English: Language Change During Interstellar Travel

Room: Sheraton: Chicago A/B

Triple Nine Society Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Pershing Place East

Saturday, July 06, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Lunch in Hospitality

Room: Sheraton: Exhibit Hall A

Saturday, July 06, 12:00 PM

A Survey of Mega-Bankruptcies in the United States (Companies Valued >$100M) Between 2014 and 2023

Room: Sheraton: New York B

Fantasy Football 101: Kickoff Some Fun!

Room: Sheraton: New York A

LocSecs Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Pershing Place East

The Future of Mensa

Room: Westin: Liberty

What's Behind the Curtain? A Peek Into Non-Profit Professional Theater

Room: Sheraton: Atlanta

Saturday, July 06, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Euchre Tournament

Room: Sheraton: Gillham Hall

Saturday, July 06, 1:30 PM

Debate Room—Immigration, Global

Room: Westin: Pershing Place West

Everything You Wanted to Know About Web3 But Were Too Afraid to Ask

Room: Sheraton: Chicago C

Free Speech Opportunist: Elon Musk’s Degradation of the Town Square

Room: Sheraton: New York B

From Ignite to Thrive: Mastering Membership Sustainability

Room: Westin: Mission/Shawnee

Live Paint Session and Bulletin Artist Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Pershing Place North/South

Mensa Foundation: Introducing New Officers, Program Updates, and Opportunities for Engagement

Room: Westin: Liberty

Mensa International Meet & Greet Q&A

Room: Westin: Pershing Place East

Musical Theater Ms Murder Mystery Game

Room: Sheraton: Chicago A/B

Playing with Philosophy???: A Near-painless Way to Guaranteed Growth

Room: Sheraton: New York A

Storm Chasing – Past, Present, and Future

Room: Sheraton: Atlanta

Saturday, July 06, 3:00 PM

Beyond the Veil: A History of Spiritualism

Room: Sheraton: Chicago A/B

Debate Room—Ukraine

Room: Westin: Pershing Place West

Exploding Stars and Their Impact on Life on Earth

Room: Sheraton: Atlanta

Level Up! Creating and Communicating a Shared Vision

Room: Sheraton: Chicago C

M-Atheists SIG Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Pershing Place North/South

Region 10 Meet & Greet

Room: Westin: Liberty

Rock of Agers: How Rock is Remembered

Room: Sheraton: New York B

Saturday, July 06, 4:30 PM

Debate Room—Death To Mosquitos

Room: Westin: Pershing Place West

Friends of Bill W.

Room: Westin: Pershing Place East

The 1981 Kansas City Hyatt Regency Catwalk Collapse

Room: Sheraton: New York B

The James Webb Space Telescope: Revealing the Secrets of the Invisible Universe

Room: Sheraton: Atlanta

Saturday, July 06, 6:00 PM

Amelia Earhart: From Humble Beginnings to Global Phenomena

Room: Sheraton: New York A

Debate Room—War On Drugs

Room: Westin: Pershing Place West

Saturday, July 06, 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM

Gala Dinner Featuring Keynote Speaker Alton Brown

Room: Westin: Century Ballroom

Saturday, July 06, 8:30 PM - 11:30 PM

Double Deck Cancellation Hearts Tournament

Room: Sheraton: Gillham Hall

Saturday, July 06, 10:00 PM - 11:30 PM

Music with Jedi Master Mensa and friends!

Room: Sheraton: Chicago C

Sunday, July 07, 7:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Breakfast in Hospitality

Room: Sheraton: Exhibit Hall A

Sunday, July 07, 9:00 AM

Hyper-Palatable (AKA Junk) Foods and the Role of US Tobacco Companies

Room: Sheraton: Chicago A/B

Women -- The Forgotten "men" in History

Room: Sheraton: Chicago C

Sunday, July 07, 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Missouri Monsters: The Satanic Panic in the Missouri General Assembly

Room: Sheraton: Chicago A/B