Suvir mirchandani calculated that if the government chose garamond font instead of times new roman, it would use 25 per cent less ink because each character is lighter and thinner. To test his hypothesis that changing the font could decrease the. Saturday, may 9th from 10am4pm at henry sibley high school free chippewa will have a bus driving students to the event. Suvir mirchandani performs toccata in e minor by j. Anyway, i think its wonderful that one youngster, 6th grader suvir mirchandani, tried to save us all a bunch of dough by proposing a way for federal and state governments to dramatically reduce their ink consumption. Chippewa middle school imc, 5000 hodgson rd, saint paul, mn. Oct 08, 2014 a middle school student from pittsburgh, pennsylvania named suvir mirchandani wanted to come up with a way to save his school money when he realized that printer ink is twice as expensive as french perfume, so he figured out a way to use less ink in school printouts. High school students tie world records for solving. This means that anyone is free to share, copy and distribute an unaltered article for noncommercial purposes provided the original. Chippewa middle school imc, 5000 hodgson rd, saint paul. The summary results from this analysis are given in figures 3 and 4. Pennsylvania student suvir mirchandani could help us. Actually, switching fonts wont save the government that.
What fonts does the indian government use for official. Oct 23, 2015 as a matter of fact, apple used itc garamond as their corporate font from 1983 to 2001 but the font enjoyed even greater popularity in 2014when suvir mirchandani, a 14year old teen science fair winner, proposed using garamond in government documents instead of times new roman to save up money on ink. Transparency news 4114 virginia coalition for open. Having said this, there were some important flaws in. High school students tie world records for solving traveling. He began thinking about all the paper worksheets he received and the cost of ink to print each page. Suvir mirchandani1 and peter pinko2 1fox chapel area senior high school 2dorseyville middle school, pittsburgh, pa summary. Like a window into their daytoday life, mirchandani census records can tell you where and how your ancestors worked, their level of education, veteran status, and more.
Suvir mirchandani, reveals a simple way to save ink change ink font. Mar 14, 2014 cover surface tension supports a water strider. Sandton capital partners will be restricted in how much it can creditbid on the assets of the free lancestar publishing co. Case study of a missioncritical defense system kadir alpaslan demir. Mar 31, 2014 actually, switching fonts wont save the government that much money. The free service and hps free smart print extension for internet explorer which works with any model printer make it easy to select only.
Tuesday, april 1, 2014 state and local stories sandton capital partners will be restricted in how much it can creditbid on the assets of the free lancestar publishing co. Apr 01, 2014 like teenager suvir mirchandani, the most eco one turned out to be garamond the worst offender was the heavy, bold, suitably named impact. With a little thought, a smart person can find simple ways for the government to save moneyand the government doesnt seem terribly interested in pursuing them. Mar 30, 2014 suvir mirchandani calculated that if the government chose garamond font instead of times new roman, it would use 25 per cent less ink because each character is lighter and thinner. His sciencefair project analyzed ink needed for printing, and he expanded his research to analyze cost savings for the the us government printing office. Fuzzy logic based eyebrain controlled web access system. Suvir, who lives in the township of ohara, just outside pittsburgh, said friday that the idea began when he was in middle school and he noticed that some teachers used heavier fonts for printing. Hotmail, the market leading service at the time, gave its free users just 2mb and had a policy of ruthlessly deleting new messages once that limit was reached. Concerned about ink usages but still required to print documents out.
As a matter of fact, apple used itc garamond as their corporate font from 1983 to 2001 but the font enjoyed even greater popularity in 2014when suvir mirchandani, a 14year old teen science fair winner, proposed using garamond in government documents instead of times new roman to save up money on ink. It often takes a person like suvir to think outside the. To test his hypothesis that changing the font could decrease the amount of ink used, he had a clever idea. Pdf using brain waves to control computers and machines. Fuzzy logic based eyebrain controlled web access system suvir mirchandani. As a sixthgrader at dorseyville middle school in pittsburgh, mirchandani was curious whether he could reduce the amount of ink used to print handouts at his school. Suvir mirchandani, 14, said he noticed there was plenty of talk at school about saving paper and he wondered about saving ink. Sounds like mirchandani may end up learning two lessons. Suvir mirchandani challenges the government to change its font to garamond, which will save a lot of money, ink and paper. So suvir decided to focus his project on finding ways to cut down on the costly liquid. Cnn money shares the story of suvir mirchandani, who originally was looking for ways his schoolteachers might reduce their printing costs. Service workers in indias multinational technology sector conducted in collaboration with sanjukta mukherjee, depaul university, usa and shruti tambe, university of pune, india this project focuses on the lives and livelihoods of low wage service workers who are employed through subcontractors in indias multinational technology firms. I got a new one within two days and the shipping was free.
Celebrate spring and earth day in this morninglong festival featuring a 5k runwalk followed by a free earth day fair. Hope in the imc, on the chippewa website or via email if you plan to ride the bus. It often takes a person like suvir to think outside the box. The coverage percentage of a sheet covered by ink was computed and the change in coverage between the original font and the three test fonts was then determined. You may not think much about the cost of ink when you go to print a document or receive a flyer, but it can cost big businesses thousands, if not millions, of dollars a year. The pittsburgharea student began his quest by trying to think of ways to save his school district a few bucks. As inspiration ill finish with this case study described in james ologhlins book. This means that anyone is free to share, copy and distribute an unaltered article for non. There are 102 census records available for the last name mirchandani. We focus on the lives and livelihoods of housekeepers. A simple printing solution to aid deficit reduction journal.
Suvir mirchandani 1 and peter pinko 1 1 dorseyville middle school, pittsburgh, pa. Weekly roundup of web design and development resources. Shonee m mirchandani hong kong professional profile. A strategic intel report on generation z published on may 9, 2014 while the rest of the world is fixated on millennials, weve turned our focus to the next wave of consumers who have the. A simple printing solution to aid deficit reduction. The page will then refresh as a clean, sidebar free, textonly printable version. Simply changing fonts could save government millions. Even though printing expenditure has been decreasing in recent years. Fourteenyearold suvir mirchandani who lives near pittsburgh, pennsylvania did.
Printing web pages to pdf is the single best way to save ink for free, because it doesnt actually involve printing at all. Suvir mirchandani 1 and peter pinko 2 1 fox chapel area senior high school, pittsburgh, pa, 2 dorseyville middle school, pittsburgh, pa. Transparency news 4114 virginia coalition for open government. A 14 year old boy suvir mirchandani from pittsburg, was investigating ways his school could reduce waste. But few, if any, have ever come up with an idea as simple as the one recently proposed by 14yearold student suvir mirchandani. His idea began when he worked out how much his school in pennsylvania could save in ink after watching multiple leaflets be handed out. Pdf documents have been resized by almost half in the same aspect ratio. May 10, 20 the effect of font type on a schools ink cost. Actually, switching fonts wont save the government that much. Table of contents march 14, 2014, 343 6176 science. Download fulltext pdf download fulltext pdf using brain waves to control computers and machines article pdf available in advances in humancomputer interaction 20 june 20 with 1,080 reads. Governors school for the sciences at carnegie mellon. He won his schools science fair with this findings, and wound up on cnn.
Also, switching to a lighter font could cut your printing costs by a fifth or more. Mirchandani census records can tell you where and how your ancestors worked, their level of education, veteran status, and more. The effect of font type on a schools ink cost journal. It is important to let the sponge dry out between uses meaning, in my case, that i can only use it once a day. Actually, switching fonts wont save the government that much money. In phone clones, based on one hundred interviews conducted over a decade, i argue that two dominant relations structure indian customerservice workers jobs first, the notion that they are fundamentally different from westerners and, second, the idea that they are their cultural clones and can therefore establish service. Serbian government officials prompted scientific outrage with plans to relocate nikola teslas ashes from a museum in belgrade to a burial site at the citys church of saint sava. The effect of font type on a schools ink cost journal of. The table below, taken from his 20 paper, compares the ink usage of 4. Suvir mirchandanis speech at fc commencement 2017 youtube. Critics of the move, planned for july, say the prolific inventor was not a believer and that his remains belong at the nikola tesla museumtheir home since 1957rather than the worlds largest orthodox church.
Like teenager suvir mirchandani, the most eco one turned out to be garamond the worst offender was the heavy, bold, suitably named impact. Suvir mirchandani s speech at fc commencement 2017 suvir mirchandani. View shonee m mirchandanis professional profile on linkedin. Collecting random samples of teachers handouts, suvir.
This past summer, i did artificial intelligence research at mit lincoln laboratory in the homeland protection group my interests are fairly eclectic, but lie primarily in language technologies and accessible interfaces. Change your typeface, save millions what started off as a science fair project for suvir mirchandani, now could save the government millions. Ok, so that may have been a first for you, but it came naturally to 14yearold suvir mirchandani when he was trying to think of ways to cut waste and save money at his. The authors are suvir mirchandani a 14year old student and peter pinko his science. Linkedin is the worlds largest business network, helping professionals like shonee m mirchandani discover inside connections to. At small scales, the influence of surface tension can exceed that of gravity, affecting everything from how small animals urinate to how water ferns stay buoyant and how pathogens spread from a sneeze or cough. Im a junior studying computer science at stanford university and a native of pittsburgh, pennsylvania. So i was excited when i read a forbes report about a 14yearold student who figured out a way to save the government millions of dollars just by changing the typeface on official documents. The book is available for free online in pdf format and i highly recommend reading through it. There is also an interview with some of the students and adults involved in the blackawton bees research project. Its true, you can see a wonderful ted video about their scientific journey here and you can download and read a free pdf copy of the scientific paper they wrote here. The amount of money the us federal government and state governments could save in ink costs if they exclusively used garamond fond on printed materials, as determined by clever and curious 14yearold suvir mirchandani when he was trying to think of ways to cut waste and save money at his pittsburgharea middle school.
Click print to print it and pdf to save it as a pdf. Now imagine it printed out millions of times on thousands of forms and documents. Mirchandani, who published two studies on topic, recommends the use of garamond to reduce your ink usage. Which reminds us you dont have to print everything. One of the ways in which we aim to meet this goal is to engage our students in research articles. High school students tie world records for solving traveling salesman problem work was final project by students in pa. When mirchandani started sixth grade at dorseyville middle school in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. Call center workers, authenticity work and hate nationalism. Search or browse hundreds of free middle school science fair project ideas that are fun, exciting, and appropriately rigorous for middle school students. Simply changing fonts could save government millions active. So he made a careful study of various handouts and. There is no official compulsion to use the fonts in government correspondence.
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