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Do you need a perfect username??

A few of my methods to find the perfect username for you.

Have you ever struggled with a good username? Thought about it hours and hours and still couldn’t find a good username to suit you and your personality? Or have you found one but it’s already being used? Well, probably these tips will end that struggle. This is going to be mainly about how to get a username. I’m on multiple websites that require an account, and have found pretty good usernames for each. If you can’t get one, try out these tips-

Let it match your personality

One of the most important things to remember. You would always want a username matching your personality, and what you are. Making up a random username that makes no sense to you and simply sounds weird in your mind won’t help. When you think of personality, think of adjectives. You could be happy, sad, angry, grumpy, tall, short, fat, thin, round, talkative, wierd, depressed etc. As my username says IamKrazy, it simply says I’m crazy! It’s a simple username, and you can do the same thing as well. For example, Iamhappy, 2sad4ever, reallygrumpy etc.

A username matching your personality could probably be the easiest way to get a good username.

Short and sweet can be the solution

No need to go for something long. As a matter of fact, short usernames help as well. Personality can come into play here as well. When I say short and sweet, it could be your own name, or a word that you use frequently.
A mix of random words that you know well
Always works. If your username is too long, instead of thinking of a new one, shorten the letters into a little thing. For example, if you want the name iamthebestintheworld you can simply take the first letter of every word and make it look like iatbitw, something that nobody else will realize, and most probably will not be taken. It will be your little secret. My email is ssfbb45, and all the letters are short for something.

A word that sounds cool

If there’s one particular favorite word you have, use it! It will sound cool to you, to your friends, and you’ll get a good username. For example, my username for this one account is virus02647, and virus is my favorite word. It gives me and my friends a good feeling.
It can be your own name
If you can’t find anything, put your full name there. As simple as that.

Add some numbers!

If you’ve got a good username, and it’s already taken, just add a few numbers that you can memorize. In my class everybody has a particular number. One of my friends has 361, other has 1023, and as for me, mine is 02647. I’ll remember that for the rest of ,my life. If you add numbers, most probably the word won’t be taken.
Those are all the tips I can think of, they will surely help you get a good username in the end.

Rohan Desai
Grade 8

Intel Young Innovators Programme at Inventure Academy

Nooraine Fazal

As India moves to a more knowledge based, globalised, and urbanized economy it faces unprecedented challenges for education achievement.

While India is uniquely poised to take advantage of this increasingly interconnected, open and collaborative world, given its “demographic dividend” (relatively young and growing population) and limited infrastructure (opportunity to leap frog to the 21st century without worrying about legacy systems) much depends on whether it can provide its youth with the education required to capitalize on this.

Educational institutions, such as Inventure Academy are increasingly expected to keep up with the demands for change and at the same time face intense pressure to reinforce traditional practices, be conservative and leave no child behind.

The fact is “We can not prepare students for a world which existed 21 years ago; we don’t know what the world will look like in 21 years time when a child born in 2010 graduates from college; what we do know for sure about the future is that there will be constant change”

There is a growing concern (highlighted further by the success of movies such as the “3 idiots”!) that school going students in India are very focused on getting high marks to secure admissions to higher education institutions (where they can look forward to more of the same, if they do indeed manage to secure a place).

Students, and the larger community in India and globally (given one out seven people world wide is an Indian!) would benefit considerably if students are instead / in addition, encouraged to make independent informed choices about what they want to do when they grow up and equipped to contribute effectively to socio-economic development by innovating, creating jobs and wealth.

This makes the need for a change / fundamental shift in our education system absolutely critical.

Given Intel’s tremendous success with initiatives such as the Intel Open University Network, Inventure Academy and the rest of the K-12 learning community look forward to continue collaborating with Intel to reap dividends that all of us could have only dreamt about in the past! For more on specific details on the programs please refer to reports from my colleagues on ……

Click here to view Intel Programme for Grades 9,10&11.

Click here to view the report on the Intel Lab Visit.

Nooraine Fazal
Managing Trustee & Head of School
Inventure Academy

Learning Lessons at Intel Labs

The 11th graders visited Intel Labs to get an insight on to what Intel does.

Over there, we learned about Chip design, Graphics design and the history of the computer world. We had the privilege of interacting with the CEO of Intel India. We also gained insight into the various educational programs that Intel sponsors. We were showed a presentation on Intel’s latest project which is an e-textbook. We had the opportunity of going inside the Lab, in which they do most of their testing and processing.

Personally it helped me gain insight into the Computer World and made me thinking about my future career.
Sankar Muthulingam
Editor(Academics)
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