Tuesday, June 30, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Colloquium Registration

Room: FWCC Ballroom A-B

Tuesday, June 30, 12:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Mensa Foundation Colloquium 2026 – Brain Health Across the Lifespan

Room: FWCC Ballroom A-B

Tuesday, June 30, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Annual Gathering Registration (Pre-Reg Packet Pick-up Only)

Room: Registration

Wednesday, July 01, 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM

Mensa Foundation Board Meeting

Room: Texas Longhorn Boardroom

Wednesday, July 01, 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Blood Drive – American Red Cross

Room: Sundance 2

Wednesday, July 01, 12:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Annual Gathering Registration

Room: Registration

Wednesday, July 01, 12:30 PM - 5:00 PM

The Mensa Store

Room: Stockyards 1

Wednesday, July 01, 1:30 PM

A Partnership to Solve Cold Case Crimes Between The University of Texas at Arlington and the Arlington Police Department

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 5

A Recent Ukrainian Adventure

Room: FWCC 202A

Debate Room: Rise of the Machines?

Room: Sundance 3

LocSec Meet-and-Greet

Room: FWCC 202 C

Mensa Region 7 Meet-and-Greet

Room: FWCC 202 B

Past, Present, and Future of the Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 4

Propaganda Analysis and Persuasion – What You Need to Know

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 1-3

We the People, 1776-2026

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 6-8

Wednesday, July 01, 3:00 PM

An Experiential Look at Dementia

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 4

Animal Rights/Vegan SIG Meet-and-Greet

Room: FWCC 202 B

Computational Simulations of Biophysical and Biochemical Systems

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 5

Debate Room: What’s Your Experience with AI?

Room: Sundance 3

Gen Y Ms Meet-and-Greet

Room: FWCC 202 D

The Science of Creativity – How You Can Be More Creative

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 1-3

Treasurer Meet-and-Greet

Room: FWCC 202 C

Wednesday, July 01, 4:30 PM

Breaking Germany’s World War II "Unbreakable" Enigma code

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 1-3

Debate Room: AI Expense

Room: Sundance 3

Illuminating Dark Matter

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 4

International Mensa Officers and Members Meet-and-Greet

Room: FWCC 202 D

Just Wingin' It – The Art of Delivering an Impromptu Speech

Room: FWCC 202A

Proctor & Testing Coordinator Meet-and-Greet

Room: FWCC 202 B

Region 4 Meet-and-Greet

Room: FWCC 202 C

The Monuments Men and Women of WWII – A Legacy of Recovery and Restitution

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 5

Wednesday, July 01, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Mensa Foundation Lounge

Room: Sundance 1

Wednesday, July 01, 6:00 PM

An Interview with George Washington

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 1-3

Astrology Reimagined

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 6-8

Brain Health – Daily Choices Have the Power to Influence Your Cognitive Health

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 4

Cat Lovers Meet-and-Greet

Room: FWCC 202 B

Debate Room: Careers in the Future Economy

Room: Sundance 3

History Through Disney Movies

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 5

Wednesday, July 01, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Gen Y Presents – Um, Actually...

Room: Texas Ballroom A - F

Wednesday, July 01, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Name That Movie

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 5

Wednesday, July 01, 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

No-Limit Texas Hold 'em

Room: FWCC Ballroom C

Wednesday, July 01, 7:30 PM - 8:45 PM

Debate Room: Battlefield Doctrine in the Drone Era

Room: Sundance 3

Wednesday, July 01, 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM

The Werewolves of the Fort Worth AG

Room: FWCC Ballroom C

Wednesday, July 01, 8:15 PM - 9:30 PM

Rhymes, Crimes & Questionable Lines

Room: Texas Ballroom A - F

Wednesday, July 01, 9:00 PM

Debate Room: AI vs Influencers

Room: Sundance 3

HELL's M's Prequel

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 6-8

Thursday, July 02, 7:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Breakfast in Hospitality

Room: Texas Ballroom A - F

Thursday, July 02, 8:30 AM - 9:00 PM

Annual Gathering Registration

Room: Registration

Thursday, July 02, 9:00 AM

Debate Room – Imperial Presidency, Tariffs

Room: Sundance 2

Evangelical Christianity SIG Meet-and-Greet

Room: FWCC 202 B

Hell’s Half Acre – The Life and Legend of a Red-Light District

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 4

How the Natural Environment Gets Away With Murder!

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 1-3

Stories and Humorous Antidotes from an Amazing Career

Room: FWCC 202A

The Canon, or Sherlock Holmes’ Adventures in Detection

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 5

Time, And Time Again

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 6-8

Veterans Meet-and-Greet

Room: FWCC 202 C

Thursday, July 02, 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM

American Mensa Committee Meeting

Room: FWCC 201 A-C

Thursday, July 02, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Mensa Makers' Market

Room: Fort Worth BR Prefunction

Thursday, July 02, 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM

The Mensa Store

Room: Stockyards 1

Thursday, July 02, 10:30 AM

Celebrating America’s 250th! Stories of Six Patriots

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 4

Daily Yoga with Jedi Master Mensa

Room: FWCC 202 D

Debate Room: Imperial Presidency – Buying the Commanding Heights

Room: Sundance 2

Forensic Interrogation Using Polygraph

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 6-8

Gen Z SIG Meet-and-Greet

Room: FWCC 202 B

M-Available SIG Meet-and-Greet

Room: FWCC 202 C

Misremembering the Alamo – The Texas Revolution as Myth and History

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 1-3

More Than Machines – A Human-Led Blueprint for the Hybrid Tomorrow

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 5

Scriptorium – A Timeless Method for Mastering Any Language

Room: FWCC 202A

Thursday, July 02, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Lunch in Hospitality

Room: Texas Ballroom A - F

Thursday, July 02, 11:00 AM - 1:30 PM

Spelling Bee

Room: FWCC Ballroom C

Thursday, July 02, 12:00 PM

Debate Room: Birth Dearth

Room: Sundance 2

Need a Paw? Animal-Assisted Therapy Interventions in the Wild

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 6-8

Thursday, July 02, 1:30 PM

Assassination and Commemoration – Remembering John F. Kennedy in Dallas

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 5

Can We Finally Achieve True Randomness in Computer Simulations? Probably So!

Room: FWCC 202A

Debate Room: Wealth Inequality

Room: Sundance 2

Disnerd Ms Meet-and-Greet

Room: FWCC 202 B

King Arthur, Jack, and His Beanstalk – All Related

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 4

Learn to Knit!

Room: FWCC 202 C

Read-It-Or-Not Book Club – Discussing "The Vegetarian" by Han Kang, (2024 Nobel Prize Winner Literature)

Room: FWCC 202 D

Safe at Home – Easy Modifications to Age in Place

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 6-8

Veridical Perception in Near-Death Experiences – Could NDEs Be Both Subjectively and Objectively Real?

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 1-3

Thursday, July 02, 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Friendly Duplicate Bridge

Room: FWCC Ballroom C

Thursday, July 02, 3:00 PM

Debate Room: Housing Shortage / Affordability

Room: Sundance 2

GenX Meet-and-Greet

Room: FWCC 202 D

If It's Baroque, It Don't Need Fixin'! (A Brief Introduction to Baroque Painting and Sculpture)

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 6-8

JFK & The Girl in Blue

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 5

M-Winers Meet-and-Greet

Room: FWCC 202 B

Powering AI

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 4

Songwriting SIG Song Circle

Room: FWCC 202 C

Three Thousand Years of Sex In the City – The Sex Life of China’s Emperors

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 1-3

What Happens to People's Stuff if They Die Without a Will in Texas

Room: FWCC 202A

Thursday, July 02, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Oh Hell!

Room: FWCC Ballroom C

Thursday, July 02, 4:30 PM

Archiving IS Activism – The power, strength, and value of an LGBTQ historical archive

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 6-8

Debate Room: Universal Basic Income

Room: Sundance 2

Isolated M SIG Meet-and-Greet

Room: FWCC 202 B

Mensa Video Discussion Group – A Panel Discussion Q&A

Room: FWCC 202 D

Storytelling from Madison Avenue to movie sets, cattle drives, and the Eastern Front of WWII

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 5

Subliminal Advertising – Real or Myth?

Room: FWCC 202A

Why’d you do it? Understanding the causes of crime.

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 1-3

Widowed Ms Meet and Greet

Room: FWCC 202 C

You Want the Truth? An Introduction to the Art of Conducting Effective Interviews & Interrogations

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 4

Thursday, July 02, 6:00 PM

Conservative Mensans (CoMe)

Room: FWCC 202 B

Debate Room: Remote Work vs. Return to Office

Room: FWCC 202 D

Infrared — the Color We Can't See

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 5

Mensans Making Music!

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 6-8

The Human Heart — Lessons Learned From Pigs, Pythons, and Pregnancy

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 4

Weaponized Statistics and You

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 1-3

Thursday, July 02, 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM

Gala Dinner Featuring Keynote Speaker Monica Lewinsky

Room: FWCC Ballroom A-B

Thursday, July 02, 7:30 PM

Debate Room: The Great Pizza Debate!

Room: FWCC 202 D

How Korean Dramas Saved My Life and How it Can Save Yours, Too!

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 4

Make AI Music Using Even More AI!

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 6-8

Thursday, July 02, 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM

The Werewolves of the Forth Worth AG

Room: FWCC Ballroom C

Thursday, July 02, 9:00 PM - 10:15 PM

Debate Room: Music These Days

Room: FWCC 202 D

Friday, July 03, 7:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Breakfast in Hospitality

Room: Texas Ballroom A - F

Friday, July 03, 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Annual Gathering Registration

Room: Registration

Friday, July 03, 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Debate Room: Amend the U.S. Constitution!

Room: Sundance 2

Friday, July 03, 9:00 AM - 11:45 AM

AMC Annual Business Meeting

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 5

Friday, July 03, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Mensa Makers Market

Room: Fort Worth BR Prefunction

Friday, July 03, 9:00 AM - 6:30 PM

The Mensa Store

Room: Stockyards 1

Friday, July 03, 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Experience Mensa

Room: Sundance 3

Friday, July 03, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

American Mah Jongg - Beginners Class

Room: FWCC Ballroom C

Friday, July 03, 10:30 AM

180 Days at Sea — A Lifetime of Experiences

Room: FWCC 202A

Clergy SIG

Room: FWCC 202 B

Daily Yoga with Jedi Master Mensa

Room: FWCC 202 D

Debate Room: The Administrative State

Room: Sundance 2

Human Intelligence + AI — Show and Tell

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 6-8

Knit-SIG Meet and Greet

Room: FWCC 201 C

Reimagining Fashion — Modular Clothing That Transforms, Evolves, and Inspires

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 4

The Most Human — Reconciling With My Father Leonard Nimoy

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 1-3

Triple Nine Society Meet and Greet

Room: FWCC 202 C

Friday, July 03, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Lunch in Hospitality

Room: Texas Ballroom A - F

Friday, July 03, 12:00 PM

Debate Room: Imperial Presidency — Habeas Corpus

Room: Sundance 2

The Case of the Red Velvet Cake — Why your recipes just don’t turn out like Grandma’s

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 6-8

The Perfect Test

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 4

Friday, July 03, 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Jonathan's Killer Spelling Bee

Room: FWCC Ballroom C

Friday, July 03, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Mensa Foundation Challenge

Room: FWCC 202 A

Friday, July 03, 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

Nerdy T-shirt Contest!!!

Room: FWCC 201 A

Friday, July 03, 1:30 PM

A Legacy of Belonging — How Mr. Spock Is Still Inspiring the Neurodivergent Community to Live Long And Prosper

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 1-3

Debate Room: Imperial Presidency — War

Room: Sundance 2

Finding the Story — Editing Without Rewriting

Room: FWCC 202 D

Pollyanna SIG

Room: FWCC 202 B

Region 1 Meet and Greet

Room: FWCC 202 C

The Sensory Language of Comfort

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 6-8

The View from Mount Carmel — A History of the Branch Davidians

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 4

Friday, July 03, 3:00 PM

Debate Room: International Law

Room: Sundance 2

Hunting Meteorites at the Bottom of the World

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 5

I attended Sotheby’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Auction Preview in 1996

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 4

Introducing Quantum Computing — How it Would Change Your Life in the Coming Decades

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 6-8

Julie Nimoy Introduces a Screening of the Film Remembering Leonard Nimoy

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 1-3

Loc Sec Panel

Room: FWCC 201 A

Redhead Ms — 2% of the 2%

Room: FWCC 202 B

Region 9 Meet and Greet

Room: FWCC 202 D

SCUBA SIG Meet and Greet

Room: FWCC 202 C

Friday, July 03, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Codenames

Room: FWCC Ballroom C

Friday, July 03, 4:30 PM

All Roads Lead to Villach — Getting to EMAG 2027 Without Stress (or With Style)

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 6-8

Chasing D.B. Cooper

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 1-3

Debate Room: Minimum Legal Age for Marriage

Room: Sundance 2

Network of American M-Member Experts (NAMME)

Room: FWCC 202A

Region 2 Meet and Greet

Room: FWCC 202 D

Region 3 Meet and Greet

Room: FWCC 202 B

Region 5 Meet and Greet

Room: FWCC 202 C

Secondary Education — Let's Think About That for a Second

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 5

Traveling History with Bonnie and Clyde

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 4

Friday, July 03, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Mensa Foundation Lounge

Room: Sundance 1

Friday, July 03, 6:00 PM

An Introduction to the Work of Frank Lloyd Wright — The Father of Modern American Architecture

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 1-3

Bill Shipper Concert

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 6-8

Debate Room: The Patriarchy

Room: FWCC 202 D

L'ChaiM! SIG welcomes the sabbath.

Room: FWCC 202 B

No Youth Program? No Problem — Supporting Youth Members in Your Local Group

Room: FWCC 201 C

Quantum Physics Frontiers — Computing with Light, Matter, and Time

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 4

Friday, July 03, 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Misster Mensa

Room: FWCC Ballroom A-B

Friday, July 03, 7:30 PM

Debate Room: Trans Movement vs Feminism

Room: FWCC 202 D

Galactic Cosmic Radiation and Its Risk to Astronaut Health During Deep Space Travel

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 4

Friday, July 03, 9:00 PM

Debate Room: USA a Christian Nation?

Room: FWCC 202 D

HELL's M's Meeting

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 6-8

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

Breakfast in Hospitality

Room: Texas Ballroom A - F

Saturday, July 04, 8:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Annual Gathering Registration

Room: Registration

Saturday, July 04, 9:00 AM

Advances in Medicine, Surgery, and Anesthesia since the 1500s

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 1-3

Burnout — What’s Really Going On Recognizing warning signs, identifying hidden pressures, and restoring energy and focus

Room: FWCC 202A

Capital Punishment — Justice or Myth?

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 4

Cryptic Crawl — Rodeo of Riddles

Room: FWCC 201 C

Debate Room: Editing the Human Genome

Room: Sundance 3

Mensa International

Room: FWCC 201 A

Parenting Thinkers — Independence, Choices, and Discipline

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 5

Stop Sabotaging Your Relationships! Use Science to Help Have Better Relationships.

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 6-8

Saturday, July 04, 9:00 AM

Mensa Makers Market

Room: Fort Worth BR Prefunction

The Mensa Store

Room: Stockyards 1

Saturday, July 04, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

American Mah Jongg - Open Play

Room: FWCC Ballroom C

Saturday, July 04, 10:30 AM

Bibliophile Ms Meet and Greet

Room: FWCC 202 C

Climate, Climate Change, and Extreme Weather — What Does Our Future Hold?

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 4

Daily Yoga with Jedi Master Mensa

Room: FWCC 202 D

Dances With Words

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 6-8

Debate Room: Equal Rights Amendment

Room: Sundance 3

Discovering your Brand (of Crazy)!

Room: FWCC 202A

Musical Theater Ms Meet and Greet

Room: FWCC 202 B

Spies I Might Have Known

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 5

What is Artificial Intelligence? Good and Bad Uses of AI

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 1-3

Who Are We? Who Are We Trying to Reach? How Do We Connect?

Room: FWCC 201 A

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

Lunch in Hospitality

Room: Texas Ballroom A - F

Saturday, July 04, 12:00 PM

Debate Room: Marriage What If

Room: Sundance 3

Finding and Engaging Testing Prospects

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 4

Humans, Beaver Dams, and the Art of Structural Seduction

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 5

Let's Play! (+philosophy)

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 6-8

Saturday, July 04, 12:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Ticket to Ride

Room: FWCC Ballroom C

Saturday, July 04, 1:30 PM

***Cancelled*** Everything is Salad

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 1-3

Atheist Meet and Greet

Room: FWCC 202 B

Complaints and Opportunities — Capitalizing on change

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 6-8

Debate Room: Road Hogs

Room: Sundance 3

Financial Mysteries for Local Group Officers

Room: FWCC 201 A

Learning About the Mensa Research Journal

Room: FWCC 201 C

Region 6 Meet and Greet

Room: FWCC 202 C

Region 8 Meet and Greet

Room: FWCC 202 D

The Beatles as Touring Musicians, 1964-1966

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 5

When Development Isn’t Linear — Rethinking Developmental Theories Through Giftedness

Room: FWCC 202A

Why Is the Expansion of the Universe Accelerating? Our latest results from DESI and other cosmological data

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 4

Saturday, July 04, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Fact or Crap

Room: FWCC Ballroom C

Saturday, July 04, 3:00 PM

Autism, Not Attitude — Embracing Neurodivergence at Work and in Relationships

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 6-8

Boundaries All Around — Volunteering in Mensa

Room: FWCC 201 A

Bridging Continuity and Innovation — The Modern Communications Officer

Room: FWCC 202 D

Debate Room: Empathy — Boon or Bane in Policymaking?

Room: Sundance 3

Fort Worth and the Chisholm Trail — Where Fact and Fiction Collide

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 1-3

The Lure of the Antarctic

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 5

The Wonderful World of Pun Competitions

Room: FWCC 202A

Unraveling the History of Toilet Paper

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 4

Saturday, July 04, 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Dominion

Room: FWCC Ballroom C

Saturday, July 04, 4:30 PM

AI+Cloud — Inclusive & Accessible Living

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 4

Debate Room: Separation of Powers — The Unitary Presidency

Room: Sundance 3

From Spillover to Stability — What Wildlife Diseases Reveal About the Next Pandemic

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 5

Game Theory: Strategy, Chaos, and a Chance to Win $80

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 6-8

How Can Mensa Reshape Society's View of Intelligence

Room: FWCC 201 A

Introducing the Local Group Toolkit

Room: FWCC 202 D

Texas Cryptids

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 1-3

Saturday, July 04, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Mensa Foundation Lounge

Room: Sundance 1

Saturday, July 04, 6:00 PM

Debate Room: Ideology in Mass Media

Room: Sundance 3

Exploring Ethical Issues Related to Human Enhancement Technology

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 5

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

Mario Kart Tournament

Room: Sundance 2

Saturday, July 04, 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Boots, Boas & Beats — Country Line Dancing....with Drag Queens

Room: FWCC Ballroom A-B

Saturday, July 04, 7:30 PM

Debate Room: Liberty vs License

Room: Sundance 3

JokeOff — 2026

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 6-8

Tahoe Illusions — Uncovering a 57-Year Fraud Hidden in Plain Sight

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 4

Saturday, July 04, 8:00 PM - 11:59 PM

Charades

Room: FWCC Ballroom C

Saturday, July 04, 9:00 PM - 10:15 PM

Debate Room: Has Star Trek Jumped the Shark?

Room: Sundance 3

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

Breakfast in Hospitality

Room: Texas Ballroom A - F

Sunday, July 05, 9:00 AM

Debate Room: Favorite Author — Nonfiction

Room: Sundance 3

Hunting Nazis in Hollywood — The Jewish Spy Ring That Brought Down the American Nazi Front

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 1-3

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

The Mensa Store

Room: Stockyards 1

Sunday, July 05, 10:30 AM

Can Curiosity Catch a Killer?

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 4

Daily Yoga with Jedi Master Mensa

Room: FWCC 202 D

Debate Room: Favorite Author — Fiction

Room: Sundance 3

The Nature of the Moon

Room: Fort Worth Ballroom 1-3