Class Badges

The club has professionally made hard plastic badges, but the class has paper badges that go into clear plastic badge holders.

Badge Holders

As of 2015, we have a large number of magnet backed badge holders. Use those. We have some pin-backed badge holders, don't use those. 

If the badge holders break, or get lost, or there aren't enough of them, we need to buy more.  Buy them online. We've used Pinless in the past. 

Making the Badges

Use a word processor of your choice. We typically center the names, with first name big and easy to read and last name underneath smaller. If PE is offered, mark PE on the PE student badges. Alternatively you can use the badge maker in the locker (/mit/tech-squares/club-private/badges/) Edit the file badges.txt. 

The class badges are usually made for the second or third week of class.  

Students are encouraged to return their badges to the badge box at the end of each night so they don't lose them. At the end of the class, collect the class badges so the badge holders can be reused the next semester.