SIGs - SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS

 

There are local, national, and international SIGs to join. Are you absolutely fascinated by the dragon characters in the Discworld books, but think no one else is? (You'd be wrong.) Form a SIG! James Wolin is in charge of our local SIGs and would be happy to help you find one you love and/or start your own!

 

Current Local SIGs

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Applied AI in Data Science Hub
Discuss business cases and integrated ideas (from all different professions) and methods (we apply mathematical methods for business and economics problems).

 

LIMENSIG
The only Long Island general interest group. We hold two events each month.

 

LIMENSIG Midweek Munchie: Join us for dinner and conversation.

 

LIMENSIG Third Sunday Brunch: Join your fellow Mensans for lunch, brunch or whatever.

 

NYC Board Game SIG
Refreshments and some games provided, please bring games you would like to play and look forward to meeting new people.

 

Smart Company (for Mensan Business Owners and Executives)
Smart Company is a forum where Mensan business owners and executives and their non-M guests can improve their business knowledge, meet new friends, make new contacts, and give and take solutions to business problems. To keep it lively and worthwhile, all attendees are expected to participate and foster an open, noncompetitive environment. This SIG is organized by lawyer Mark Silverstein and creative director Robert Mayson.

 

Trivia SIG – Thinking and Drinking
For all Mensans who like trivia and testing their knowledge against that of others, this is the group for you. We meet to compete against each other and other trivia buffs in various locations such as pubs, throughout the Greater New York area. Why wait until CultureQuest?
If a SIG becomes inactive, any member can volunteer to lead it.
To volunteer to be a SIG leader, please contact James Wolin. Be sure to provide your Mensa ID number. SIG leaders and co-leaders must be current members of American Mensa.

 

The rules to start a new SIG are simple:
  1. The proposed SIG's activities must be lawful in the political jurisdiction in which its activities will take place.
  2. The proposed SIG cannot be entirely duplicative (of site and activities) of an existing SIG under another name.
  3. The SIG must be open to all interested Mensans, except for certain SIGs designated confidential.
  4. The name Mensa or the stylized "M" may not be used in a SIG's title.
  5. SIGs must have at least one Calendar item in Mphasis between semi-annual SIG listings, except for exceptions designated with the symbol "*".
  6. In addition to other forms of contact, every SIG must list a telephone contact number for the SIGs Directory and all Calendar items.
  7. All contact persons listed in all SIG Calendar items must be current members of American Mensa.
  8. If a SIG is a local chapter of a national SIG, then dues may be collected if the national SIG assesses them. While other local SIGs do not have dues as such, all expenses incurred as a result of their activities must be borne entirely by their participants.

 

Note: Whether you participate in a national or local SIG, you should know the following:
  • SIGs are voluntary associations of members of Mensa, which operate independently of Greater NY Mensa. Their financial activities and liabilities are entirely their own, and not those of Greater NY Mensa. Furthermore, no SIG leader may obligate GNYM in any way.
  • Just as SIGs' activities and liabilities are their own, so is the responsibility for disciplining SIG members where necessary. SIG leader(s) and/or the SIG membership have full authority to sanction any member of the SIG whom they deem has interfered with effective functioning of the SIG's activities.