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Thanks to all who attended BLAST!

Our BLAST! Regional Gathering was held from January 23 and 24. The Sunday events were held by Zoom because of the winter storm


Join our literacy outreach!

Help to spread the word about Northern New Jersey Mensa’s Literacy Program. We are providing free resources for teaching reading! For information about how you can help, contact us.


Renew Your Membership!

If your membership has lapsed or your membership expires on March 31, you can renew by clicking here.


Admissions testing

For information on how to qualify for Mensa, click here.

March 2026
Mar 21
Mar 21, 202610:00 am – 12:00 pm
Admissions Testing

Please arrive 10 minutes early to allow for registration. Please bring a printed copy of your voucher and your picture ID to the session. If you are under the age of 18, but at least 14, you need to bring a parent or guardian and complete additional forms. You must contact Richard A. Schaefer via[…]

April 2026
Apr 18
Apr 18, 202610:30 am – 12:30 pm
Admissions Testing
Rockaway Twp Library, 61 Mt. Hope Rd.
Rockaway, NJ 07866 United States

Please arrive 10 minutes early to allow for registration. Please bring a printed copy of your voucher and your picture ID to the session. If you are under the age of 18, but at least 14, you need to bring a parent or guardian and complete additional forms. You must contact Richard A. Schaefer via[…]

May 2026
May 16
May 16, 20261:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Admissions Testing
Morris County Library, 30 East Hanover Ave.,
Whippany, NJ 07981 United States

Please arrive 10 minutes early to allow for registration. Please bring a printed copy of your voucher and your picture ID to the session. If you are under the age of 18, but at least 14, you need to bring a parent or guardian and complete additional forms. You must contact Richard A. Schaefer via[…]

June 2026
Jun 20
Jun 20, 202610:30 am – 12:30 pm
Admissions Testing

Please arrive 10 minutes early to allow for registration. Please bring a printed copy of your voucher and your picture ID to the session. If you are under the age of 18, but at least 14, you need to bring a parent or guardian and complete additional forms. You must contact Richard A. Schaefer via[…]


Who We Are

Northern New Jersey Mensa (NNJM) is a chapter of Mensa, the international society for people who score in the top 2% on IQ tests. The goals of the group are to provide and encourage social and intellectual interaction among members.

Mensa is the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world. It is a non-profit organization open to people who score at the 98th percentile or higher on a standardized, supervised IQ or other approved intelligence test.


News

Go Tell It on the Mountain, by James Baldwin
James Baldwin's semiautobiographical novel is about relationships. It deals with mature themes.
Hippocrates: On the Sacred Disease and the Hippocratic Oath
The Hippocratics swore by all the gods to serve their patients but …

Upcoming events

March 2026
Mar 17
Mar 17, 20267:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Armchair Conversations: Free Speech, Fighting Words, and Violence

Northern New Jersey Mensa’s Armchair Conversations are a friendly environment for serious conversations.

Mar 21
Mar 21, 202610:00 am – 12:00 pm
Admissions Testing

Please arrive 10 minutes early to allow for registration. Please bring a printed copy of your voucher and your picture ID to the session. If you are under the age of 18, but at least 14, you need to bring a parent or guardian and complete additional forms. You must contact Richard A. Schaefer via[…]

Mar 21
Mar 21, 20264:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew

Back in Elizabethan times, it was considered funny to tell stories about how badly a man beat his disagreeable wife. However, Shakespeare turned this trope on its head. For years, people have been arguing about whether the play is feminist or antifeminist. (Kate is eventually “tamed.”) However, the moral of the story is clear: the[…]

Mar 22
Mar 22, 20263:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Theodore Talk: Dudley Clark, the Genius of Deception (the Illusionist Who Fooled Hitler)

Can one man change the course of a world war? From 1941, working from rooms over a Cairo brothel, British officer Dudley Clarke conceived a new way of fighting the Nazis: using the tools of the mind. Deception in war isn’t a new idea, but this eccentric colonel realized that global conflict offered the chance[…]

Mar 28
Mar 28, 20264:00 pm – 5:30 pm
George Eliot: Middlemarch

Middlemarch is a novel that is set in a provincial town in England in the years leading up to the Reform Act of 1832, which broadly increased voting rights in Britain (but women still could not vote). Middlemarch deals with many themes, including “the woman question” and the nature of marriage, as well as religion[…]


Volunteer opportunities

Learn valuable new skills while helping to build Northern New Jersey Mensa! We need a Vice Chair and a calendar coordinator, among others