North Dakota Mensa
Mensans having fun at Denny’s in Bismarck
North Dakota has a very active Mensa group that received National Mensa’s Group of the Year Award (“GOTYA”) in both 2009 and 2011. In 2009 the group or its members received four major national awards. Member Karina Fabian received the Fiction Owl in 2007 for her ongoing contribution to the newsletter. The Owl is national Mensa’s highest award to a local group.
North
Dakota Mensa has hosted eight successful Regional Gatherings at The President’s
House, Valley City State University, and is planning its ninth for 2012. Click here to read
about the upcoming RG on June 8-10, 2012. Among other attractions, RG ’12 will
include musical evening with the President’s House antique player piano, a
potluck picnic at beautiful Chautauqua Park (weather permitting), and fireworks!
The
group has regular meetings in Fargo/Moorhead, Dickinson, and Grand Forks and
occasional meetings in Valley City, Bismarck, and other cities. Events are
primarily publicized in the newsletter, but events that aren’t planned in time
to make the next issue are listed on our calendar page at http://freecal.brownbearsw.com/NDMENSA.
If you would like to attend a meeting, check the calendar page or email your
nearest Area Coordinator (they are listed on the Officers and Contacts page).
Members
also communicate through the group’s newsletter, the Prairie Dawg. The
Dawg has included discussions about fighting terrorism, mock turtle soup,
referenda, fairies, cats, Mensa gatherings, and Death Rain potato chips. The
newsletter included the Owl-award winning serial set at the 2006 World
Gathering, written especially for us by Karina Fabian and starring Vern the
dragon, also know as Dragon Eye,
P.I. The series has been published in book form by Swimming Kangaroo Press,
and you can read the original Prairie Dawg version here.
North
Dakota Mensa participates in the national Scholarship Program. For more
information, see the contact page for the address of Scholarship Chair Gay
Rawson.
Like
to join Mensa?? You can use the results of a previous test, or proctored tests
are offered any time by appointment in Fargo, Valley City, Grand Forks,
Dickinson, or Bismarck. A proctors is in training in Minot, and tests will be
available there soon. To schedule a test, please email Proctor Coordinator Shirley Starke. More info on joining national
Mensa can be found by calling 1-800-66-MENSA or on the website of American Mensa.
Please email
news, articles, photos, and other contributions to ndmensa@valkyriepub.com.