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Mensa Running Club (Room Lobby)

07 Jul 19
6:30 AM - 8:00 AM

Tracks: Fitness

Speaker(s): Rob Swenson
The Mensa Running Club will have daily morning group runs, typically around sunrise, meeting in the hotel lobby. We run at a conversational pace to... More...

Breakfast in Hospitality (Room Phoenix C, D, & E)

07 Jul 19
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Tracks: Meal

Daily offerings include whole fruit, cereal, yogurt, oatmeal, pastries, and toast. More...

Junque-Craft Display (Room Registration)

07 Jul 19
8:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Tracks: Other

Did you see the Bag-O-Junques at registration?  Fifty creative attendees picked up a bag of random stuff and challenged themselves to make som... More...

Asteroids, Ion Propulsion, and NASA’s Dawn Mission to Vesta and Ceres (Room Encanto A)

07 Jul 19
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Tracks: Speaker

Speaker(s): David Williams
Asteroids are the primitive remains from the formation of the solar system, the building blocks of the planets, but for years they were neglected b... More...

My Information Went ‘Data Way’ Moving Data Around — Relational and Non-relational (Room Camelback)

07 Jul 19
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Tracks: Speaker

Speaker(s): Kevin Wood
Where is your data? Can you glean information from it? Can you move it back and forth? Kevin Wood has been “playing” with data for decades. He is f... More...

Tea 101 (Room Deer Valley)

07 Jul 19
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Tracks: Speaker

Speaker(s): Amanda Vermillion
Do you love tea and want to learn more about it? Are you just getting into the wonderful world of tea? Learn the basics and fun facts about tea fro... More...

Why Would Anyone Walk the Camino de Santiago, Anyway?! (Room Valley of the Sun)

07 Jul 19
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Tracks: Speaker

Speaker(s): Kit Cassingham
The Camino de Santiago is an 800-kilometer (500-mile) pilgrimage across northern Spain that started 12 centuries ago. Santiago is reputedly the cit... More...

Xu Beihong — The World Famous Artist You Probably Never Heard Of! (Room Paradise Valley)

07 Jul 19
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Tracks: Speaker

Speaker(s): Sandy Halby
Xu Beihong is one of the most famous artists in China and is well known throughout Asia and Europe, but he is practically unheard of in the United ... More...

CANCELLED: How to Profit Off Your More Interesting Friends (Room Paradise Valley)

07 Jul 19
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Tracks: Speaker

Speaker(s): Laura Heffernan
From watching her best friend star in a reality show to two three-book series! In this presentation, Laura talks about her publishing journey from ... More...

CANCELLED: Increasing Your Value in the Job Market: If I’m So Smart, Why Don’t They Pay Me More? (Room Deer Valley)

07 Jul 19
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Tracks: Speaker

Speaker(s): David Bourbonnais
Increasing one’s value in the job market is not a passive endeavor. This presentation will examine the following factors that can be utilized... More...

Casa Grande, Ariz., and the Top Secret Corona Project (Room Deer Valley)

07 Jul 19
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Tracks: Speaker

Speaker(s): David Pivin
Scattered in a 16-mile square grid in the southern part of Casa Grande lies a collection of more than 250 concrete markers, resembling a Maltese cr... More...

Improving Your Household’s Resilience: Low-Effort Self-Sufficiency on Small Lots (Room Camelback)

07 Jul 19
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Tracks: Speaker

Speaker(s): Edmund Williams
In an increasingly uncertain world, more and more people would like to find ways to increase their resilience by meeting some or all of their own f... More...

Specters of the Past: Arizona’s Ghost Towns (Room Encanto A)

07 Jul 19
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Tracks: Speaker

Speaker(s): Jay Mark
The promise of great riches is what brought many of the earliest colonizers to the distant Arizona Territory. Following their dreams of discovering... More...

Sudoku Tournament (Room Ahwataukee)

07 Jul 19
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Tracks: Tournament

Speaker(s): Michelle Stockton
Sudoku is all about filling in the numbers — up, down, and throughout the square. How fast can you solve these? The puzzles start easy and ge... More...

Women in Greek Tragedy and Their Modern Counterparts (Room Valley of the Sun)

07 Jul 19
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Tracks: Speaker

Speaker(s): Barbara Drushell
The three great Athenian playwrights all featured strong women victimized by even stronger men in several of their plays. Clytemnestra, Antigone, a... More...

Confessions of a Body Mechanic: How An Osteopath Looks at Health and Disease (Room Camelback)

07 Jul 19
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Tracks: Speaker

Speaker(s): Stephen Myles Davidson D.O., D.O. (h), C-SPOMM, LMT
Where does disease come from? One place is structural malalignment in the human framework. The presentation begins with a review of the osteopathic... More...

Crazy Genius: Recognizing and Addressing Mental Health Issues in High-IQ Populations (Room Valley of the Sun)

07 Jul 19
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Tracks: Speaker

Speaker(s): Rory Bristol
This presentation focuses on engaging with others who have mental illnesses (diagnosed or suspected) in a compassionate and productive manner. By a... More...

Geocaching 101 (Room Deer Valley)

07 Jul 19
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Tracks: Speaker

Speaker(s): Alexandra Rice ; Matthew Page
Geocaching — a real life treasure tracking adventure. With more than 3 million active geocaches worldwide (and hundreds in the Phoenix area!)... More...

HighSchool.GG — Changing Education with eSports and Twitch (Room Paradise Valley)

07 Jul 19
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Tracks: Speaker

Speaker(s): Todd Conley
HighSchool.GG will walk through how they are using eSports as a trojan horse to transform education, providing relevant experiential learning oppor... More...

How to Self-Publish on Amazon Kindle (Room Encanto A)

07 Jul 19
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Tracks: Speaker

Speaker(s): Amber Gabriel
Do you have a manuscript or novel sitting around? Afraid publishing is too expensive? Have you been rejected by publishers in the past? Eliminate t... More...

Friends of Bill W (Room Alhambra)

07 Jul 19
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM

Tracks: Meet and Greet

For Mensans and guests who are actively practicing any 12-step program. This is a non-hosted, informal program, not for observers or the curious, p... More...

AG Survivor’s Party (Room HELL's M's Suite - 432)

07 Jul 19
3:00 PM - 11:59 PM

Tracks: SIG

Are you staying until Monday? The HELL’s M’s suite will be open Sunday night. Everyone is welcome. More...