FIFTY of the brightest minds in the world will be converging on Perth next month as the brainiacs from Mensa hold their meeting of international directors.
It will be the first time Australia has been chosen to host a Mensa meeting.
Australian Mensa chair Jean-Marc Genesi will be traveling from Melbourne to attend as Australia’s representative, along with chairs from around the globe.
“I am looking forward to meeting fellow Mensa CEOs on home soil,” Mr Genesi said.
“Preparations are well underway and we hope to make this the best IBD meeting ever.”
On the agenda will be issues unique to Mensa such as online testing, membership issues, new and emerging Mensas, trademarks and growth.
International IT systems are always under discussion, while ways of retaining the volunteers who keep Mensa running will also be on the agenda.
The official meeting will last from October 10-13, but there’s a formal gala dinner, cocktail icebreaker and a trip to Rottnest Island to give delegates time to chill out.
Mensa is the best known high IQ society in the world with over 150,000 members in more than 90 countries.
Australian Mensa has nearly 3000 members, with the main growth area children.
Around 47 per cent of members aged under eighteen.
Mensa began in 1946 when an Australian and an Englishman met on a train and the seed was sown for the idea of a high IQ organisation.
The only criteria for membership is to score in the top 2 per cent on a standardised IQ test.
Perth Voice Interactive 
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