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# Name Badge
Make yourself known with a fancy name badge powered by your @!
## Code
First, let's get your name to display on the screen.
### Button press
From the ``||input:Input||`` Toolbox drawer, drag an ``||input:on button A pressed||`` block onto the Workspace.
```blocks
input.onButtonPressed(Button.A, function () {
})
```
### Show a string
From the ``||basic:Basic||`` Toolbox drawer drag a ``||basic:show string||`` block into the ``||input:on button A pressed||`` block.
```blocks
input.onButtonPressed(Button.A, function () {
basic.showString("Hello!")
})
```
### Show my name
In the ``||basic:show string||`` block, type your name.
```blocks
input.onButtonPressed(Button.A, function () {
basic.showString("My Name")
})
```
### Test the badge
Go to the simulator and test your name badge by pressing button **A**.
```sim
input.onButtonPressed(Button.A, function () {
basic.showString("My Name")
})
```
### Download
Download the program to your @:
1. Make sure your @ is plugged into the computer.
2. Click the `|Download|` button.
## Make
Now that you have your name showing on the @, let's make a proper badge to wear and display it on.
Cut out a badge shape from a piece of colored construction paper.
Loop a piece of duct tape and stick it on the back of your @.
Stick your @ onto the front of your badge.
Using a hole-punch, punch out 2 holes in the top of your badge.
Attach the battery pack to the @.
Tape battery pack onto the back of the badge.
Thread a shoelace through the top 2 holes of your badge.
Tie a knot at the end of your shoelace
Decorate your badge with colored paper, markers, stickers, glitter.
It's now finished! your badge is ready let others know who you are.