If you like to come, please register using the form at the end of this page so that we can cater enough food for everyone.

Date : 15th August 2009 (Saturday)
Time : 1500 hrs - 1730 hrs
Venue : NUSS Guildhouse Suntec City

Cost: S$10 for Members and S$30 per person for each accompanying guest.
(Actual cost of the spread/head is $30; members get a $20 discount!)

** Please bring your membership card for verification.* Attendees without membership card or whose membership has lapsed will be charged S$30 entrance fee. Members whose member has lapsed can renew on the spot and gain entry at member’s rate. Entrance fees, where applicable, will be collected upon arrival.

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A peek into the menu for the day ….

CANAPES
Stuffed Egg with Tobiko Caviar
Hawaiian Chicken on White Smoked Salmon Roulade
Assorted Vegetables Crudites Honey & Lime Dip

HOT SELECTION
Shrimp Bomb Ball
Chicken Yakitori
Chicken Chive Dumpling
Prosperous Bag
Chicken Lasagna

TIM SUM
Superior Shrimp Dumpling
Steamed Spinach Dumpling

DESSERTS
Assorted French Pastries
Assorted Fresh Fruit Bowl
Sweet Corn Custard Cake
Fruit Cocktail with Almond Beancurd

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You want to attend but your membership has expired? Renew on the spot, get to savor the spread prepared for you, and also receive a Mensa Singapore laser pointer at the same time. A set of Executive Notebook awaits you if you renew for 3 years in a row!

We hope to see you there! Register for the event here:

Mensa Singapore has a variety of activities for all Mensans. Here is a summary of the calendar of upcoming activities. Click on the links below for more details of the events. For the Mensa Singapore Admissions Testing schedule, please refer to the MSAT section.

Schedule for Regular Monthly Events 2010

Regular scheduled events subject to changes. Please refer to calender below for actual dates.

• Chill and Chat - Every last Sunday of the month.
• Soapbox - Every 3rd Saturday of the month.
• Networking Lunch - Every 1st Wednesday of the month.

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It was not until March 1987 when Mr Edward Vincent, then Executive Director of Mensa International (MI), visited Singapore before any further efforts to register the society were brought up again. Mr Vincent conducted a talk entitled “Mensa Talks and Test Sessions” and subsequently invited Singaporean members of Mensa International to a follow up cocktail party. During the party, held at the Hilton Hotel on 19 May 1987, he announced his intention of setting up a local Mensa chapter and asked for volunteers. Two gentlemen, Mr Narinderpal Singh Bhalla and Mr Kannan Chandran came forward and began to form the Protem Committee which aimed to get Mensa (Singapore) registered.

Over the next few meetings, other interested Singaporean members of MI joined the Protem Committee. The office bearers were Mr Bhalla (Hon. President), Mr Chandran (Hon. Vice President), Ms Daphne Wong Hsiao Ya (Hon. Secretary) and Mr Chen Fei Wei (Hon. Treasurer). Dr Gerald Wong, Mr Adrain Tan, Ms Bernadette Chung, Mr Thomas Yeo, Mr Toh Kok Seng, and Mr Steven Ong formed the rest of the committee.

While the Protem Committee had various concerns such as selecting an appropriate psychologist to conduct testing and obtaining funds for publicity, the priority centered on drafting the constitution to suit the requirements of both MI and ROS. With funding from MI, Lee & Lee Solicitors were engaged to guide the Protem Committee in the application to the ROS. This was done because the committee was not very familiar with the requirements and practices in the ROS application process.

On 3 January 1988, Mr Chandran informed the meeting that Mr Bhalla had stepped down as Hon. President because he was leaving permanently for Canada. The Protem Committee then elected Mr Chandran to take over from Mr Bhalla as Hon. President. During that time, Mr Png Kim Chiang also joined the committee. The Protem Committee submitted a formal application to the ROS to register Mensa (Singapore) in March 1988 and after waiting for more than a year, the determination and perseverance of the early founders finally paid off. Word arrived on 28 May 1989 that Mensa (Singapore) would become a reality.

Amidst the general jubilation, a decision was made to launch the society in a grand manner, with lots of activities to create interest and awareness, and to coincide with the inaugural general meeting. Again, with financial support from MI, advertisements were placed in the New Paper and the Straits Times to invite the public to take the admission test and join Mensa. On 15 October 1989, these initial test sessions began at Braddell Primary School, and the rest as they say, is history.

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Notes:

• The Entrance Fee is waived for all new Mensans. Mensans whose memberships have lapsed and wish to renew will have to pay either the Entrance Fee or their membership arrears for the months that their memberships have lapsed, in addition to the Annual Fees.
• To qualify for Subsidised Membership, please send proof of Full Time NSMen or Student/Undergraduate status by post to our office.
• 2-year and 3-year discounted subscriptions are only available for Mensans who are renewing their membership. New Mensans and Mensans whose memberships have lapsed and are “re-joining” will not be eligible for this rate until after their first year of membership.

Pro-rated Fee Structure
Mensans who join in the middle of a calendar year will be charged a pro-rated payment structure:

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Up for a challenge? Sign up for the MSAT today!

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If your child is below 14 years old, and you wish to admit your child to Mensa, you need to bring your child to any qualified Psychologist for a test such as the WISC-R test. If your child has undergone similar tests before, you may submit those test results to Mensa for consideration. Upon receiving of your report/test results from the psychologist, kindly forward it to Mensa Singapore. If the result meets Mensa criteria, we will revert to the parent/applicant submitting the test results/report. This is how Mensa Singapore presently accepts younger children to join the society.

Information about fees, testing schedules and availability are available at Mensa Singapore’s website, as well as directly from the Mensa Singapore office. At this present time, the MSAT is conducted monthly at Suntec City in the city center and costs S$55 per person. Special testing sessions are also conducted several times a year at the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University and Singapore Management University for their students.

Important notes about the MSAT:

This test is to be used solely for qualification for membership in Mensa Singapore and should not be used for any other purpose.

Mensa uses a percentile as cutoff for membership to avoid confusion due to different numerical scores from different tests. Therefore, your results will be presented as a percentage and not a numerical score.

You cannot practice for this test nor can you improve your result by taking this test repeatedly. Candidates are not allowed to take this test more than once within a 12-month period.

If your result is within the top 2% of the general population, you will be invited to join Mensa Singapore. During the test, your proctors and testing officers will also be able to tell you more about Mensa.

Mensa Singapore treats the test procedures and all results to be private and confidential. Candidates can expect to receive their results within 3 to 8 weeks.

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Click here for test schedule

Click here for commonly asked questions on the Mensa Admission Tests

Mensa Singapore can be contacted through the following methods:

Address: Mensa Singapore, #06-03, Eastgate, 46 East Coast Road, Singapore 428766
Telephone: +65-63455288 (Voice) / +65-63440626 (Fax)
Web: http://www.mensa.org.sg/
Email: office {at} mensa.org(.)sg

You may also use the form below to send us a message:
(Please select the correct subject heading to ensure it reaches the correct person. If you have a question on admission, please select “testing” under subject heading).

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Regular Monthly Gatherings
Mensa Singapore has organizes several monthly gatherings, namely:

• Chill and Chat – Want to hang loose and chill out after a hard month’s work? Then join us at any of the Chill & Chat sessions to catch up with friend over an afternoon of board and card games. Held every last Sunday afternoon of the month.
• Soapbox – Come and listen to a talk, seminar, or discussion about anything under the sun! Past events have covered all sort of things from improving your memory, to dance and poetry as well as tips for becoming an entrepreneur. Usually held every second or third Saturday afternoon of the month.
• Networking Lunch – Take a break from your cube farm and join other Mensans for lunch (you have to eat too right?). Great food, and even better company. Held every first Wednesday lunch time of the month.

For more information about our activities, please check our calendar.

Branches
Mensa Singapore currently has three branches in the three publicly funded universities catering especially to students and staff of those educational institutions. Should anyone be keen to establish new branches in other educational institutions or organisations, please do not hesitate to contact us. Our branches are at:

• National University of Singapore - NUS Mensa
• Nanyang Technological University
• Singapore Management University - Mensa @ SMU

Menews
Mensa Singapore publishes a regular electronic newsletter, Menews, full of updates on upcoming Mensa Singapore events. There are also plenty of light-hearted and serious articles, contributions from local Mensans, commentaries, stories, photos as well as news and articles from other Mensa organizations around the world for your enjoyment.

Mensa Email Account
All fully paid-up Mensans are entitled to a free email service with the Mensa Singapore domain. You can now have your email address xxxx {at} mensa.org(.)sg.

Service for Information, Guidance and Hospitality to Travellers (SIGHT)
SIGHT is a unique program that helps Mensans traveling to meet and interact with Mensans wherever they may be in the world. Mensa Singapore’s SIGHT coordinator who not only helps take care of overseas visiting Mensans, but can also assist you in connecting with Mensa chapters in other countries when you visit them.

Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
Mensa Singapore has plenty of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) to whet your appetite. To participate in a SIG, simply contact the SIG Coordinator to sign up. But if you can’t find one to suit your tastes, then feel free to start one of your own and find other like-minded Mensans. Some SIGs to grace our shores include areas of interest such as architecture, a cappella music, financial markets, Asian pop, rock climbing, entrepreneurship, cooking, inventions, magic, parenting, fencing, software engineering, writing and much, much more!

Special Events
From time to time, Mensa Singapore organizes various special events, outings and projects. Here is a short list of the various past events organized to give you an idea of what we do:

• Mensa Singapore @ Bookfair
• Brainhunt by NTU Mensa
• Yum Sing! Charity Dinner Musical in aid of the Singapore Autistic Association
• Mensa International Board of Directors / International Governing Council Meetings hosted in Singapore
• Olympics of the Mind / Junior Olympics of the Mind (in association with Singapore Indian Development Association)
• International Forum on Intelligence
• Movie Night (in association with YMCA)
• Mensa-MCYS Teen-Parent Forum (supported by the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports)
• Mensa International Photo Competition
• The Great Mensa Challenge
• NETS-Mensa Innovator Series Competition (in association with Network for Electronic Transfers (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.)
• Mensa Youth Apprentice (in association with the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports’ month-long Shine! Project)

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