Your local and regional Mensa Foundation scholarship chairs are seeking judges!
Each year, Tampa Bay Mensa participates in the Mensa Foundation Scholarship Program. Volunteers are needed to read and judge short essays (550 words or less) for this year’s Program. Last year, there were 4 winners from the Tampa Bay area.
Local judging
American Mensa’s local chapters assemble judging teams of at least three members to review the applications. The essays are judged on content and also grammar, organization, and craftsmanship. The Local Scholarship Chair refers the best local essays to the Regional Scholarship Chair for review.
There are two rounds of judging: Round One is the Elimination Round, where the essays are given only a Yes or a No, based on whether the reader believes that the essay meets the criteria and has a reasonable chance of making it all the way to the final round of judging.
Round Two is the Scoring Round, where readers assign scores based upon form, content and impression.
Volunteers may choose to participate for one round or both. The majority of judges must be members of Mensa, but non-members of Mensa are also welcome.
Judging will begin January 16th and must be completed by February 28th.
If interested in participating in this season’s judging, please email scholarship@tampa.us.mensa.org.
Thank so much for your help!
Linda Christina
Event Information
Tampa Bay Mensa currently maintains event information in a few places:
- On this site, in the Events Calendar.
- On Facebook, in the Tampa Bay Mensa group. – Open to current members only.
- Printed in our local newsletter, Tampa Bay Sounding
- On Twitter, @TBMensa.
Tampa Bay Mensa Online Community
Connect with us online!
Mensa Connect
This is Mensa’s members-only social platform. Stop in to explore discussions on topics both local and national. If you’re a member of TBM, you’ve automatically been added to our communities (Tampa Bay Mensa and Tampa Bay Mensa RG), and there are lots of other communities to join! Just sign in with the same username and password you use to access the national site. – Open to current members only.
Facebook – Tampa Bay Mensa
Facebook is a popular tool with our members and the Tampa Bay Mensa groups are easily our most active online forum. – Open to current members only.
Facebook – Regional Gathering for Tampa Bay Mensa
This group is specific to information and discussion on our regional gathering. – Open to all regional gathering attendees.
Twitter – @TBMensa
Want an easy way to stay up to date with TBM events? Just follow @TBMensa!
Instagram – TBMensa
We’re new to Instagram, but give us a follow. I’m sure we’ll be posting cool things!
Local Groups
If you live outside the geographic area of Tampa Bay Mensa, you can join the local group that serves your area. The website for American Mensa has links to all local groups. Here are some of the other local groups in Florida:
- Mensa of Jacksonville
- Tallahassee Mensa
- Northwest Florida Mensa
- Gainesville Area Mensa
- Central Florida Mensa
- Space Coast Area Mensa
- Miami Mensa
- Broward Mensa
- Palm Beach County Mensa
- Southwest by South Florida Mensa
- Manasota Mensa
Communication
With our local monthly newsletter, Tampa Bay Sounding, the national magazine of American Mensa, Mensa Bulletin, email groups, Facebook groups, national and regional gatherings, weekly local events, and over 150 Special Interest Groups, Mensa provides a wide variety of opportunities to communicate with thousands of other intelligent people. Whatever your interests, pedantic to pedestrian, there’s someone here who shares them!
Here is a small sample of the official SIGs of American Mensa: Astronomy/AstrophySIG, Bardolatry (Shakespeare), Burning Man, Chocolate M, Computer Science, Genealogy (GeneSIG), Global Risk Reduction, IQ (Intelligent Quilters), Karaoke-Ms, M-Investment Club, Metacognition, and M-any more! Here is the complete list of official SIGs.