We are a mid-sized Mensa group with a lot of energy and an increasing number of varied weekly, monthly and quarterly events and activities. We are the local chapter of American Mensa that serves the large upstate New York area from the Capital District (Albany, Schenectady, and Troy) northward to Saratoga, Plattsburgh and the Canadian border.

We are thrilled that we were just selected to host Mind Games 2011 , our second National event in 5 years!

About 300 enthusiastic Mensans will arrive in Albany in April of 2011 for a weekend of playing and rating new-to-the-market board games! If that sounds like fun, Join Mensa and Register early (but you'll need to wait until Mind Games 2010 in San Diego is over). FYI, the first MoNNY National event was the hugely successful 2006 Colloquium: Revolution in Cosomology.

Check out our monthly newsletter for events, columns, jokes, and puzzles. Join the MoNNY Facebook and Yahoo Groups to find late-breaking events. Check the website (you are there now, after all) for extras that wouldn't fit in the newsletter.

While we get together to have fun at local, regional and national events, we also give back to the community with a Scholarship Program and a Gifted Children's Program.

If you are into that sort of thing, you can read our group Bylaws.