We are delighted to announce that MyMachine has been shortlisted for the 2019 WISE Awards. The WISE Awards recognise innovative initiatives from around the world that are addressing global educational challenges. We are thrilled to have been shortlisted amongst 15 incredible initiatives supporting education worldwide. Since 2009, WISE has received more than 3,000 applications from...
Amy Kamarainen, Christina Smiraglia and Edward P. Clapp, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University: “Students in MyMachine learn that they can contribute to society, rather then just be a consumer of society. But ultimately what strikes us most about MyMachine is its ability to cultivate wonder, joy and a sense of community accross school populations − and even...
Magali Veramme, alumna MyMachine: “In retrospect, I now refer to my first job as MyMachine Extra-Large: I need to listen to a strict, very demanding customer and make it happen, despite budget limitations and deadlines. Yes, exactly like MyMachine!”. Read the full story in our brand new book: What Is Your Dream Machine? How Children...
Hank Nourse, Senior Vice President & Chief Learning Officer at The New York Academy of Sciences, member of IBE-UNESCO’s technical working group on Future Competencies and the Future of Curriculum: “By engaging children’s imaginations and encouraging all members of the education community to share in their innocence, curiosity, and capacity to dream, MyMachine has the...
MyMachine is all about a special collaboration between students of primary, higher and secondary education, creating the dream machines invented by the primary school students. So to be honest, we know a little something about creating special collaborations. But this one however was new to us. And what a marvel. We are really proud to present...
This school participated 3 years ago in MyMachine Slovenija (Slovenia) and decided for themselves that they wanted to keep on improving the original working prototype: so, with their technical students they produced this new (highly improved) version and is now being fully tested by the original child-inventors: the remotely controlled dinosaur that picks up toys...
During the last week of March, all MyMachine Coordinators from around the world gathered in the Annual MyMachine Coordinators Meeting. This year, MyMachine Slovakia was the host of the meeting. The 2 day meeting took place in Kosice, where the Carpathian Foundation has its offices. The meeting offers the opportunity to share expertise and knowhow...
In MyMachine Portugal, the final stages of the making of the working prototypes are here. Here we can see the primary school children visiting the technical secondary school Cenfim in Caldas da Rainha. This is always a great moment for the young child-inventors to see how a prototype is actually being made and are asked...
Kristiansand, home to the MyMachine Norway HQ, is opening the 2019 MyMachine exhibition season today! This day marks the end of an intense collaboration of primary, secondary and higher education. And the results were astonishing! The exhibition is at display at the Kristiansand Library in downtown Kristiansand. The participating primary schools visited one by one the...
Last Wednesday evening we were honoured to be invited at the Vlerick Business School Brussels Campus. Vlerick Business School is an international business school welcoming MBA and Masters students from 50 countries onto their world-class programmes in Brussels, Ghent, Leuven and Beijing. The school has 22,000 alumni active in businesses in more than 100 countries....
In this year’s MyMachine Belgium edition, the Work-In-Progress event was a double event: one in the city of Hasselt (at PXL University of Applied Sciences) and one in the city of Kortrijk (at HOWEST University of Applied Sciences) (located 200km from each other). The event delivers the Primary School children their last opportunity to give...
MyMachine Norway invites you to their 2019 Exhibition opening on Tuesday March 19th in Kristiansand. This is the glorious moment where all students, teachers and professors from primary, secondary and higher education that were involved in MyMachine get together to discover all working prototypes. Of course the students know the one they invented, conceptualised and...
Just like last week in the city of Hasselt, MyMachine Flanders & Brussels (Belgium) has organised a second work-in-progress event, this time in Kortrijk. More then 200 students from primary and secondary and higher education came together to experiment, learn from each other and to inspire each other. The higher education students from Howest University...
Young inventors explore the scientific principles behind their dream machines: producing electricity with fruit from the ‘dream tree’ so they can activate lights in the tree. Or making fake wounds with bioplastics, which brings the perfect excuse the bring on the ‘nursing machine’. All of this was made possible by the students from PXL University in...
On Friday 15th, MyMachine Slovakia visited the žilinskú university with the primary school inventors from Zilina. The students visited the School of Multimedia at the university. They learned about how a TV-studio works, how a control room is operated and how a Green Screen works. The Green Screen, like the one in this Green Key...
Last December, MyMachine Slovakia hosted their Work-In-Progress event. The fine moment in the MyMachine methodology when the primary school children visit the university to discuss and give feedback on the concepts defined by the college students. Now, national Radio and Television of Slovakia (Rozhlas a televízia Slovenska) or RTVS has broadcasted on Rádio Regina a...
MyMachine Belgium is impressed to see how this student team from the School of Digital Arts & Entertainment at Howest University, succeeded to engage the primary students from GO! Basisschool Kroonloon in Ostend, in their game developing platform. Not only by developing a game based on their ideas but by involving them in the development phases,...
Great example of MyMachine Norway on how STEP 3 looks like. Technical secondary school students at Treteknikk in Tangen discuss the production options for this dream machine. They concluded that it is difficult to build an entire machine in wood. In particular, the launch mechanism has proven to be difficult to construct in wood within...
Maja is the annual magazine published by The Young Academy. The most recent edition (number 5) runs an article on MyMachine, expressing the need for nurturing creativity and a ‘we can do that’ approach with the youth in Belgium. The Young Academy, part of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences & Arts, is...
It was a beautiful setting: primary school children from Obidos visiting the ESAD University. The purpose of this visit is not just to see where and how the university students are working, but also to discuss the final stage of the conceptualisation of their dream machine. Stay tuned as the concepts are now entering the...
Last Friday, MyMachine Slovakia hosted their 2018-2019 Work-In-Progress event. It’s the fine moment in the MyMachine methodology where Step 2 is almost finished. The inventor-children have been working with the university students to translate their idea into a concept. At this Work-In-Progress event the inventor-children get the opportunity to discover a small-scale model of their...
Here’s an article of Getting Smart (leading voice in education in the USA) with 50 resources for Makers and Creative Classrooms. Getting Smart expresses their constant look for new inexpensive (or better yet, free) resources that can introduce more students to STEM and maker education. We’re proud that Getting Smart is mentioning that “there are a...
Here’s a great media-coverage of the second part of the MyMachine Portugal exhibition which was launched on Monday 12 November 2018 at Vila Nova de Famalicao. More than 120 elementary school students from the Famalicao region were involved in the previous school year, which resulted in the making of six dream machines.
Always nice to discover how our story travels the planet. This is, to our knowledge, the first article on MyMachine featured in Indonesian media. According to Crunchbase, Yekopo is known as online humor media that provides credible information, inspiration, and fun content for Indonesian young generation. Read the article here: Cara untuk Membantu Mewujudkan Impian Si...
For the past two years, the Creative Alentejo partnership has examined best practices, knowhow and strategies on the development dynamics of creative territories and the relationship of these territories with formal and non-formal training in a logic of transmission and empowerment of businesses and professionals in the creative sector. This partnership has asked MyMachine to...
Today is what America calls #GivingTuesday (November 27th). American friends of MyMachine can make a tax-deductible holiday gift to the American Friends of MyMachine Fund. Your support is a general grant to the not-for-profit MyMachine Global Foundation. Read here how any contribution makes a difference! Today marks a good moment to – again – sincerely thank our...
The second part of the MyMachine Portugal exhibition was launched today Monday 12 November. More than 120 elementary school students from the Famalicao region were involved in the previous school year, which resulted in the making of six dream machines.This event was also attended by mayor Paulo Cunha, aldermen of Education, Knowledge and Culture Leonel...
The international ProtoTyping trade fair is designed for everyone in the field of product development. The focus is on the whole design process, from the original idea through to setting up a business model and actual production in a pilot run or small series. You will find companies and research centres here with the technologies, materials, tools &...
What a day! What a party! All the elementary school classes that are involved in MyMachine Norway this year, have visited the university! This Work-In-Progress event is the moment where the elementary school inventors can test out early mock ups of the dream machines. Engineering students received a lot of useful feedback to improve the...
College Students learn a lot in MyMachine. Yes, there’s a lot to learn about being creative (again), about deadlines, about respecting each other’s talents, about budget restraints. Another aspect of bringing an idea to life, is to know what production facility you can work with. That’s why the university students who are translating the initial...
MyMachine Norway kicked of their 2018-2019 season with five “What is Your Dream Machine?”-sessions across 3 elementary schools: Kringsjå skole, Kristiansand International School and Karl Johan Minne Skole. To be able to witness the creative power of those young students is always a real honour. It were really very creative sessions. We can’t wait to...
MyMachine Slovakia launched their 2018-2019 season at the elementary school in Drienove. This is the first class room where the University Students from the Technical University of Kosice (TUKE) went to engage with the elementary school children at Step 1 of the MyMachine methodology. To be able to witness the creative power of those...
Previously we reported on the wonderful opening day of the MyMachine Slovakia Exhibition 2018 in Kosice. Now MyMachine Slovakia has shared a video of that wonderful moment:
What would you think of a machine to invent new animal species? Or a machine that enables you to talk to your cuddles? Or would you prefer the me-doubler that would go to school in stead of you? Lot’s of brilliant ideas, yes every idea is brilliant, from the elementary school children in this classroom...
The London-based company THE PIE is a news and business analysis company for professionals in international education. The PIE Founder and Managing Director Amy Baker and MyMachine Co-Founder & Managing Director Piet Grymonprez met at Going Global in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) earlier this year. Now The PIE News has published the interview: you can find...
TV Kosice has made a great coverage of the opening of the MyMachine Slovakia 2018 Exhibition yesterday in Kosice. Click below to see the inventors, builders, teachers, professors, business people and government representative shine! And rightly so! They have been through the process of bringing their ideas to life! And the impact was truly visible:...
It was a magnificent day in Kosice. The second largest city of Slovakia woke up to the day that would mark the second MyMachine Slovakia Exhibition since the Carpathian Foundation started MyMachine in september 2016. Campus Gallery of the Technical University Kosice was the agora for all MyMachine Slovakia participants: all the elementary school children,...
Belgian media company ZIGO interviewed one of our three co-founders at MyMachine. ZIGO is not just another media company. Its baseline is “Makes Optimism Easy” and brings the story of people (they call them pioneers) who do not accept the status quo and take positive action to better our society. It is therefore a great...
Very proud to be called “Rebel With A Cause” in this article by by leading voice in education Tom Vander Ark (Getting Smart). The article explains that “Rebels are people who break rules that should be broken. They break rules that hold them and others back, and their way of rule breaking is constructive rather than destructive....
The Belgian company Vanhalst, 2 Give & Enjoy, was founded in 1968 and celebrates 50 years of entrepreneurship. Vanhalst has grown from a pastry shop to a wholesale company and in more recent years the creation of the designlabel Atelier Pierre. Since 2002 Sophie and Frank, sister and brother, are leading the company and its...
Gettingsmart, the leading platform on education in USA, created a podcast on MyMachine. The podcast includes an interview by Tom Vander Ark with the 3 co-founders of MyMachine. The interview was done while Tom Vander Ark was in Kortrijk (Belgium) for the opening of the MyMachine Belgium 2018 exhibition. Click here to find the podcast...
Today marks another milestone in the history of MyMachine. We are very proud to share that Forbes has run an article on MyMachine. Forbes is a leading business magazine in the USA that every month reaches out to 115 million people in 73 countries. Tom Vander Ark, who was our keynote for the 2018 MyMachine...
This week MyMachine Belgium organised a conference on the Future of Learning. This conference was held alongside the opening of the MyMachine Belgium 2018 Exhibition. The conference was attended by leading voices in education, industry and government in Belgium and was co-hosted with Agoria, the Belgian Association of Technology Industry. MyMachine Global invited Mr. Tom...
This is what happened last Tuesday at the Opening Event of MyMachine Belgium 2018 Exhibition. With over a thousand participants: children-inventors, students, teachers, professors, leading voices in industry, education, government and with the keynote by Mr. Tom Vander Ark, leading voice of education in the USA. Enjoy the video:
Tuesday June 25th. 11AM. At Technopolis in Mechelen, Belgium. 1000 visitors anxious to go inside and start discovering the results of one full school year’s work of co-created creativity by 650 students from all educational levels and 26 different schools throughout the country. This year, the MyMachine Belgium 2018 Exhibition Opening Event was co-hosted by...
Friday June 15th in Kristiansand. 10AM. And children from the participating schools are arriving at the Kristiansand City Hall. That’s where the elaborated working prototypes are on display. As they have been working on it in the past months, they know of course their very own dream machine, but soon enough they will discover the...
We are honored with Getting Smart, the leading platform in education innovation in USA, featuring an article on MyMachine. Getting Smart is a learning design firm, that provide advocacy, advisory and coaching services that support more powerful learning for all. They partner with education focused foundations, learning organizations, schools and districts to invent the future...
There’s 3 extraordinary reasons to be at the MyMachine Flanders (Belgium) 2018 Exhibition Opening Event on June 26th in Technopolis Mechelen (Belgium): 1. Some 650 child-inventors and students from all over the country will be there to visit the exhibition. As they have been co-creating their own dream machine with their classroom in the current school...
Friday June 1st. 21h00. Hundreds of children and their parents, teachers, professors, secondary students and university students gather at Complexo Scolar Dos Arcos in Obidos. They embark on the discovery of the elaborated dream machines. The presented prototypes were exquisite and we have seen only happy faces: the travel to the moon and back machine:...
We are very excited to announce the MyMachine Portugal 2018 exhibition: just like last year, the exhibition is a 3 week exhibition, moving to three different schools and each time opening at 21h00: 1 June 2018 in complexo escolar dos Arcos 7 June 2018 in complexo escolar do Alvito 15 June 2018 in complexo escolar...
We have now (and only now, which is, in hindsight, remarkable) decided to create a mailing list. We will send news about all MyMachine chapters from around the world, but we will only do that when there is something to tell. So it will not be a fixed-scheduled-newsletter every week or every month. It will...
Agoria, the Technology Industry federation of Belgium, just returned from an economic mission to Silicon Valley. Agoria took along Belgian Factory of the Future companies to visit American Factory of the Future companies. The nature of the visit was to learn from each other on how to adapt their business to the 21st century needs...
The Work-In-Progress event of last week was a remarkable event of 100 child-inventors visiting the University of Agder to give feedback on the small-scale mock-ups, created by the university students. Read the whole story in this Norwegian newspaper: https://www.fvn.no/kultur/i/l193W7/Barnas-drommemaskiner-blir-virkelighet
This week was a remarkable one for MyMachine. It marked the very first gathering of (almost) all MyMachine coordinators from around the globe. The 2-day meeting was crucial in the further development of our global strategy. And, as always, we were not afraid to challenge ourselves. This time round with the same central assignment we give...
A very exciting day at MyMachine Norway! 100 inventor-children got to visit the University of Agder for their Work-In-Progress event. That is the moment they can discover the first small-scale mock-ups of what eventually will become their elaborated working prototypes later on this year! It gives them again the opportunity to give feedback to the...
At the Future Factories 2018 Award Gala (organised by Agoria, Sirris, Fevia, Fedustria, Centexbel and Flanders’ Food), the manufacturing industry in Belgium chose to support MyMachine financially and give us the opportunity to present what we are doing to support this very important manufacturing industry. The manufacturing industry in Belgium is facing some of the greatest...
The February edition of the magazine “Ondernemers” (Entrepreneurs) of the Belgian Chamber of Commerce (VOKA) features an interview with MyMachine Flanders & Brussels coordinator Aagje Beirens and MyMachine Co-Founder Piet Grymonprez. The article focusses on the Global Reimagine Education Presence Learning Gold Winner 2018 award MyMachine received in Philadelphia last December and how exactly MyMachine...
Ever since the day the elementary school children (Kortrijk, Belgium) got a suprise visit from the Digital Arts & Entertainment (HOWEST Univerity of Applied Sciences) students, they knew their invention was going to become a computer game. The university students decided to incorporate every single invention of every child into the computer game. Since that...
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250 top business leaders from the West Flemish region in Belgium gathering for lunch at The Hotel in Brussels. It was a big honour for us to be invited to present MyMachine at this occasion. It was again heart warming to receive this much positive feedback from business leaders. Looking back at the very start,...
For the last couple of years, December is marked to be a very special month in Belgium. It’s the almost-end-of-part-2 of MyMachine. Since the day the university students have been to the elementary school classroom, a lot has happened. The university student knew what dream machine they needed to design. They had to deliver different...
Introducing this year’s inventions of MyMachine Portugal, which are currently in the process of MyMachine: A Machine To Cuddle A Helmet Full Of Ideas A Machine To Stop Being Afraid Of The Dark And Know The Interior Of The Sun A Machine To Go To The Moon A Machine To Find Lost Objects. But be...
Introducing this year’s inventions of Mymachine Slovakia, which are currently in the process of MyMachine: A Universal Cleaning Machine A Planting Machine, A Selfcover – Pavement that walks alone A Portable Personal slider. One of the inventions is the invention of children in a primary school for pupils with disabilities and pupils with impaired communication...
Following through on the Reimagine Education award, Belgian newspaper ‘De Morgen’ has featured an article on MyMachine. The article highlights the core values of MyMachine and the reasons why we try to help out in reimagining education.
The MyMachine chapter in Portugal started in the city of Óbidos. After succesfully running MyMachine for 3 years, other regions got interested in joining the chapter. Today MyMachine Óbidos has transformed itself into MyMachine Portugal. This means the chapter in Portugal will grow a lot, meaning more dream machines created. In the end it’s all...
We’re very much honoured to bring to you the wonderful news that MyMachine just claimed yet another international award. We can now, after a.o. the United Nations World Summit Award, the Designmanagement Europe Award, the LERN Award, add the Global Reimagine Education Presence Learning Award: Gold Winner 2018. 168 international jury-members selected MyMachine to present...
We are thankful for the opportunity we got today, to present at the global conference Reimagine Education in Philadelphia (USA). A packed program with many extraordinary innovation initiatives from around the globe. We are not just thankful but also very proud to be picked by the Reimagine Education Innovation Highlights Roundup Panel mentioning MyMachine as...
Students from the Faculty of Engineering at the Kosice Technical University are on the go. As they have joined the elementary class rooms for the ideation of new dream machines, they are now working hard to translate those ideas into tangible concepts. We can’t wait to see the first mock-ups and drawings.
It was the city of Óbidos that sparked the first MyMachine chapter in Portugal in 2014. Now the chapter has transformed itself into MyMachine Portugal. We are thrilled to share this news. We settled this idea a year ago in Óbidos and are very exited to see today our model growing to the whole of...
Thank you Jöran for the interview with MyMachine Co-Founder Piet at the Unesco OER conference (September 2017):
MyMachine is invited to present at the International Reimagine Education Event in Philadelphia (USA) early December. Reimagine Education aims to acknowledge and reward those most successful in creating transformational educational initiatives, enhancing student learning outcomes and/or employability. Great educators know that truly transformative ideas begin with a question – begin at those moments where challenge becomes opportunity. The challenges...
On Thursday 26th of October, 400 companies gathered in Antwerp (Belgium) to take part in the Agoria (Technology Industry Interest Group) Energy Technology Club Annual Walking Dinner. MyMachine was invited to give a presentation to this audience of international business leaders. And we are grateful for the excellent network opportunities that created new links for us....
We’re already up and running for quite some years now in Flanders and Brussels (Belgium), and still this moment remains magic. The very moment children start to invent their own dream machine(s). Some 800 children throughout the country have been inventing the past 2 weeks. We can’t wait to hear about their dream machines soon....
We’re very excited again to see the first pictures from MyMachine Slovakia as they are kicking off the 2017-2018 MyMachine season! We can’t wait to hear about the invented dream machines! Keep in touch for follow-ups.
The new MyMachine Season has gracefully started in the different countries. To celebrate this, watch this beautiful MyMachine Slovakia video to discover how technical secondary school students become the heroes that build the working prototypes of the dream machines invented by kids. #MyMachine #STEM #STEAM #Creativity #Entrepreneurship #project-based-learning #maker-centered-learning MyMachine Slovakia 2016/2017 Pozrite si, ako...
Yes! Here we go again. This time it’s MyMachine Portugal that kicks-off the new MyMachine season. The very first brand new dream machines have just been extracted from the creative minds of elementary school children in Óbidos. More to follow soon, in Portugal and in the other countries as well. So stay tuned! It will be...
3 days in Ljubljana (Slovenia) at the Unesco Global OER congress: how better to explain adults what MyMachine actually is, by asking them what their dream machine is:
What happens when you invite the 100.000 visitors of the International Cartoonfestival (on the theme of Inventions) to make a drawing of their own dream machine? You get a wall like this, every single day, for the past 2 months! Thank you very much for all these inventions and creativity! We love you! Keep on...
MyMachine is proud to be invited to host a MyMachine Slovenia exhibition at the 2nd World OER Congress. This congress is scheduled to be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 18–20 September 2017, co-organized by UNESCO and the Government of Slovenia. This event will mark five years since the World OER Congress was held in Paris in June 2012....
The International Cartoon Festival in Belgium opens this week at Knokke-Heist Beach. The theme of this 2017 edition is inventions. So we’re proud to be asked to be (a small) part of it. At the V.I.P.-Opening Night we invited everybody to draw their very own dream machines. Here are some of the results. Our Spocker...
Monday 26th, Tuesday 27th and Wednesday 28th mark the 3-day MyMachine Flanders & Brussels exhibition 2017 at Brussels’ Library Muntpunt. Some 700 children from elementary schools came, view, concerned and approved their very own inventions turned into 12 working prototypes. This time round, not just business people and other different stakeholders were at this Brussels...
26th of June 2017. 10:00AM. Over a hundred elementary school children enter the exhibition room at the Kasarne/Kulturpark in Kosice (Slovakia). They are here to discover their own elaborated dream machines that are on display. The explanation of how they work is provided by the technical high school pupils and university students. And not just...
Today marked a special day in Norway. The very first MyMachine Exhibition opened in Kristiansand. 160 students from elementary classrooms came to the Kilden Exhibition room to discover the 4 working dream machines: The Rainbow-Machine, The Icecream-Machine, The Doing-Anything-Machine and the Bird-Cleaning-Machine. The results were stunning and the shared experiences were profound. Teachers, professors, students,...
MyMachine Slovakia is finishing their very first MyMachine cycle. So their exhibition is due soon. 26th of June the exhibition goes on display from 10AM to 16PM. A great chance to see the elaborated working prototypes of the dream machines and all the participant students that participated. We’re very much looking forward to it and...
It’s a wonderful combination when you are able to look at the brilliant work that has been done this school year in MyMachine Óbidos and at the same time discuss the context for the upcoming years in Portugal. Thank you so much to this team to make it all happen!
MyMachine Óbidos (Portugal) Exhibition 2017 is running for 3 weeks in 3 different locations. Today, the exhibition just opened at the second location in Obidos. Just like last week when it opened the first time, hundreds of visitors – children, students, parents, grandparents, teachers, professors, politicians, business people – all came to discover the dream...
These proud inventors and builders from MyMachine Vlaanderen(Belgium) present their dream machines at their MyMachine Inauguration Party they organised themselves for their schools and parents. And by the third week of June, all dream machines will be on display at the MyMachine Belgium Exhibition in Brussels!
MyMachine Slovakia will host their very first MyMachine Grand Exhibition this June. It will open on June 26th. That day from 10:00AM till 15:00PM, the VIPs will be all the students from all the different education levels, exploring the elaborated working prototypes of their very own invented dream machines. The exhibition will be on display...
We’re very excited to share the MyMachine Óbidos Exhibition details fro 2017: this year it’s going to be a 3 week split event: the evening of Friday June 2nd it will open in one school and will be on display until Thursday June 8th. On Friday June 9th the exhibition opens with an evening event in...
MyMachine Norway is announcing their very first Final Exhibition. This event will take place on June 19th 2017 at the Kilden Theater and Concerthall in Kristiansand. 4 elaborated working prototypes of dream machines will be on display. The result of more than 75 creative people that co-created the dream machines. We are very much looking...
MyMachine is in Belgium also running on a pilot scale in Wallonie Picarde. They are building 3 dream machines this year: a playing-football-machine, a robot-cat and an automatic rope jumping machine. We’re very much looking forward to seeing the working prototypes in June.
It’s that time of the year again, where MyMachine Flanders & Brussels (Belgium) is multi-tasking big time. Not only are the technical secondary students working hard to finish the building of the working prototypes, and MyMachine is preparing the final exhibition for June in Brussels, they are also launching the yearly Call for Participation to...
MyMachine Slovakia invited the elementary school inventors to visit the technical university in Kosice for their “Work-In-Progress”-event. On the spot the children could (again) interact with the university students to give feedback on the created concepts. The whole MyMachine process is a co-creation methodology. This Work-In-Progress event is a big one, because the children don’t...
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This is very exciting for as now it’s really happening: here they are: MyMachine Norway has just started! Check out their great website www.mymachine.no to discover the first dream machines being built ! They had their very first visit in the Elementary classroom where children started drawing their dream machines! We can’t wait to hear more...
What happens if you bring in 450 child-inventors into one room at HOWEST University of Applied Sciences in Kortrijk? The answer is: they become loud and enthusiastic feedback machines to the university students that are designing their inventions. Each year again, it’s so wonderful to see the university students getting hands-on honest feedback from the...
We’re very proud to announce yet again, that MyMachine is becoming a bit bigger. A couple of weeks ago, the Cultiva Foundation has signed the MyMachine Norway License. Cultiva Foundation is honored to introduce MyMachine in Norway. Cultiva was established 6 December 2000 by the Municipality of Kristiansand to ensure that a portion of the profits made from...
Friday 18 November 2016. Richard Branson shares on his Facebook and Twitter account his thoughts on MyMachine: “Love this concept – giving youngsters a way to work together and bring their dreams to life”. We’re very honored with his positive words on our concept. His more then 12 million followers have reacted to his message,...
Congratulations to MyMachine Oklahoma! We’re very proud for this important LERN Award in the category Programming. As this category recognizes courses, activities, programs or events that are creative & innovative, this award endorses the MyMachine methodology. As LERN is including more than 9,000 members from all 50 states, and 20 countries, serving industries including different kinds of...
We’re a little bit proud to announce that today, MyMachine is featured across Virgin.com. We’re very happy with this, as Virgin is supporting MyMachine big time by doing this. This communication will reach out to many people across the globe, which hopefully will bring new links to what we’re doing. You can find it here:...
Today we were honoured by the visit of an important Indian delegation from Karnataka. Dr. Ashwath Narayan is an Indian politician, member of Karnataka Legislative Assembly representing BJP from Malleshwaram constituency, Bangalore, Karnataka. He is often credited with Malleshwaram witnessing massive transformation in several sectors including healthcare, welfare, education, sports, infrastructure and several others under his leadership. With a focus on education, Dr. Ashwath Narayan...
Monday October 3. London. The Mermaid. 13.30PM. MyMachine co-founder Piet Grymonprez had the pleasure to pitch MyMachine main stage at the Virgin Disruptors 2016 event. The 2016 edition of Virgin Disruptors was based on the theme People Creating Change and hosted speakers on 4 theme’s: Purpose, Planet, People and Performance. The public of several hundreds...
Monday 19 September 2016: the grand opening of the MyMachine Obidos (Portugal) Exhibition 2016. The moren than 100 children involved in the MyMachine cycle 2015-2016 were in the Technology Park to discover the dream machines they invented. The five elaborated working prototypes stay on display this week at the Technology Park. After this week the exhibition...
Monday 19 September 2016: this marks the start of the MyMachine Òbidos (Portugal) exhibition for this year. The exhibition will showcase all the elaborated dream machines from the 2015-2016 MyMachine cycle in Portugal. 100 children from different elementary class rooms will visit the exhibition that will be on display for 1 week. After this week,...
Brussels, Belgium (Europe). 23 June 2016. 11AM. 450 Children discover and test the elaborated dream machines.
Some rain. But for most, a lot of sun and very hot temperatures in downtown Brussels. 4 dream machines are on display outside of The Bronks (Youth Theatre), 6 dream machines inside. With a direct impact of 65, this means that more than 700 people collaborated in creating these dream machines. The participating elementary school...
MyMachine Slovenia presented their Final Exhibition 2016 at the Rampa Lab in Ljubljana. This exhibition celebrates the conclusion of the MyMachine Slovenia 2015-2016 cycle. 9 working prototypes are on display. With an average (MyMachine Global) of 65 people directly involved, this means that these 9 elaborated dream machines, were built through a collaboration of more...
MyMachine Slovenia is proudly announcing their 2016 Grand Exhibition. The grand opening is on Thursday 16 June 2016. This is the day on which all children involved will be visiting the exhibition to test the elaborated working prototypes. This will be serious testing by the children, a lot of fun and loud. We’re very much...
Today something unique happened. We were invited by Punith Raj to do a “MyMachine workshop” in his coaching center, called JJ Academy. Punith has taken the initiative to start this academy to help out 120 children in this neighborhood of Bangalore, with their homework or teach them extra courses. This happens each day from Monday...
MyMachine is very proud to be invited to talk at this international conference co-organized by India Platform and BMS College of Engineering, in Bengaluru, India. The Conference that will take place on the 10th and 11th of June, has one theme: The Concern for Creativity. The organizers claim that all around Asia, there is a growing concern about...
It’s May 20, 2016. It’s been proclaimed officially by the Governor as MyMachine Day in the State of Oklahoma. It’s Friday evening. It’s Oklahoma City. It’s on Film Row. It’s 70° F. It’s a Block Party. It’s packed with food trucks. And most importantly, 8 elaborated dream machines from MyMachine Oklahoma are on display. Congratulations...
“Whereas, the MyMachine initiative is preserving creativity that so quickly escapes our children as they grow into young adults; and Whereas, it is fitting and proper to recognize the labors of the children, parents and educators, who have played a rol in this noteworthy project and praise their efforts which have realized spectacular inventions...
MyMachine Global is proud to announce it started a collaboration with The New York Academy of Sciences. Today Hank Nourse – Director Digital Content Strategy and Instructional Design, met again with MyMachine global Co-Founder Piet Grymonprez in New York. The New York Academy of Sciences is the world’s nexus of scientific innovation in the service of...
MyMachine Oklahoma is finishing their very first cycle this week. Next Friday the working prototypes of these dream machines will be on display at their Grand MyMachine Oklahoma Exposition in the city center of Oklahoma City: 1. Baseball Machine The Idea behind this dream machine is that an individual child can experience aspects of baseball...
We are very honored to announce that MyMachine has signed a new franchise agreement. The Carpathian Foundation has taken a franchise to start MyMachine Slovakia. This means that MyMachine, honored by United Nations, is now in on 3 continents in 7 countries: Belgium, France, Slovenia, Portugal, Slovakia, South Africa and USA. The MyMachine Foundation is...
Take a look at the wonderful dream machines being built by MyMachine Slovenia: 1. Plavac: This machine gives children vocal instructions that helps them to learn to swim. The dream machine will also play with them in the water. 2. Save-Driving-Machine: This dream machine is a driving assistent for adults and children in the car. It gives...
MyMachine Óbidos is building five dream machines this year, and they’re brilliant: “The-don’t-let-the-tacher-think-about-giving-us-homework-today-machine” Problem: we don’t like to be given home work by the teacher. Solution: when the time comes the teacher chooses to give us homework, we pupils put a helmet on the head of the teacher. This Don’t-let-the-tacher-think-about-giving-us-homework-today-helmet makes her forget about homework, and makes...
May 20. Oklahoma City Center. MyMachine Oklahoma is having its Grand Exposition on Film Row. It’s going to be a Friday night block party! An open air exhibition were you will be introduced to the 7 wonderful dream machines being invented and co-created by all pupils and students involved. You are of course invited. See...
MyMachine Slovenia just launched their Work-In-Progress event. At their event all involved higher education students got together to showcase their scale models to each other. This event gave them the great opportunity to give feedback to each others work. The Work-In-Progress exhibition remains open to the public for one month at the Rampa Laboratorij in...
Yesterday was a great day for MyMachine Belgium. Hundreds of children visited the “inventor-school” (Howest University of Applied Sciences – Industrial Design Center) to assess the works of the product and game design students. At this Work-In-Progress event all children inventors give honest feedback about the elaboration of the concepts of their dream machine. This...
The MyMachine Global Foundation is proud to announce to be invited at the Belgian Agoria Annual Assemblies International Business Clubs. On Tuesday 8 December 2015, the Annual Assemblies International Business Clubs will honor the MyMachine Global Foundation for the work we do on a global scale to promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). More than 500...
We are proud to announce that MyMachine Obidos (Portugal) started with their new cycle 2015-2016. In this cycle more than 100 pupils and students are involved from 3 elementary schools, 1 technical high school and 1 university. Take a look at the first pictures of the children inventing their dream machines. We are already very curious...
The ZOMBIE machine is the idea that the children in Slovenia and Belgium want to see realized as a working prototype. This machine can make real zombies that protect you and help you doing things at home (if you ask them friendly). Has this anything do to with the Halloween period? One thing’s for sure: they...
MyMachine Global is proud to announce a new and unique international collaboration between MyMachine Flanders (Belgium) and MyMachine Slovenia. During this academic year the 3 educational levels in Belgium (Kortrijk) and Slovenia (Ljubljana and Nova Gorica) will cooperate both offline and online as one international team with one goal: the making of a working prototype...
Fabulous to see that yet another country is taking up MyMachine! One-hundred second graders at Soldier Creek Elementary in the Mid-Del School district (Oklahoma) are firing up their creative juices. They are taking pen in hand to put on paper their “dream machine”. The students of Rose State College dressed up last Friday to meet...
In preparation of the bi-annual Unesco Global General Assembly which is going to take place at the Unesco Global headquarters in Paris early November, Unesco Europe organized a Preparatory Meeting in Brussels last week. This preparatory meeting was focused on young people to give ideas and advice in preparation of the 9th Unesco Youth Forum,...
Kick off of a new MyMachine cycle by the Howest students Digital Arts & Entertainment and the 5th grade of the Elementary School Edugo St. Vincentius. This part of the MyMachine Flanders (Belgium) cycle is about translating the idea into a game. Some ingredients for the game: a love-machine that unites separated parents by using brain...
Today we’re proud to announce that MyMachine will be a keynote speaker at the Internet of Education Conference 2015 in Sarajevo (Friday 18 September 2015). The goal of this event is to bring together researchers and policy makers from both university and academia to present methods for improving the effectiveness of online and open education but also promote discussion...
Today is another great day for MyMachine. In the Parque Tecnológico de Óbidos MyMachine Óbidos opens their 2015 Exhibition! So we are proud to present the Educadora: the machine that learns how to tie your shoes the Matira: the helmet with lights and music to make you feel safe in the night the Biocleta: a boat with...
Today, MyMachine Óbidos is visiting MyMachine Global in the city of Kortrijk, Belgium. Miguel Silvestre who is running MyMachine Óbidos together with Ana Sofia Godinho, brought with him a group of Portuguese Mayors. Left: Miguel Silvestre, MyMachine Óbidos Middle: Piet Grymonprez, Co-Founder MyMachine Right: Telmo Faria, former Mayor of Óbidos It...
The MyMachine Belgium (Flanders) Exhibition on national television in a dedicated news show targeting youth (Dutch): http://www.ketnet.be/karrewiet/23-juni-2015-my-machine. This news item focusses on the visit to the exhibition of the elementary school that invented the game that has been developed in this MyMachine cycle.
We’re very happy to share some of the great media coverage both exhibitions benefitted from both in Slovenia as in Belgium. Here’s 2 examples from both countries: In Slovenia the MyMachine Exhibition got almost a complete page in the Delo (one of, if not the most important newspaper in Slovenia). You can see the picture...
Today was a magnificent day for MyMachine. MyMachine Belgium (Flanders) just celebrated their Grand Opening in Kortrijk. The expo tails the 2014-15 edition of MyMachine Belgium (Flanders). 450 Children from the participating schools in Belgium, arrived at 10 o’clock. They could discover all of the elaborated working prototypes and test them out ! The higher education students were there...
Today is a historic day for MyMachine. The first ever exhibition outside Belgium is a fact. MyMachine Slovenia just celebrated their Grand Opening at the MAO in Ljubljana. The expo tails the 2014-15 edition of MyMachine Slovenia. 150 Children from the participating schools in Slovenia, arrived at the MAO at 11 o’clock. At first they could tell...
“Does creativity evaporate when entering Elementary School?” is the title of this grand interview with Mihajela Crnko from MyMachine Slovenia, in the National Slovenian Newspaper Delo. This article is a great promotion for MyMachine Slovenia, two days before the opening of the first MyMachine Slovenia Exhibition at the Mao in Ljubljana. Join us at the Mao...
Click here for the Dutch Documentary by Regional Television TV OOST: children/inventors from the Belgian elementary school discovering, at the technical high school, their working prototype: the Disease-Vacuum-Cleaner. This is one of the dream machines that will be on display at the Grand MyMachine Flanders Exhibition, opening June 18th in the City of Kortrijk. Join us...
Here’s a great video from MyMachine Slovenia: presenting one of the dream machines being built right now. The MyMachine Slovenia Grand Exhibition is opening next week. That’s where a prototype of this machine will be showcased.
MyMachine Slovenia will be concluding its first MyMachine cycle with an Exhibition that will take place 11 June – 9 July 2015 at the Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO) in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The opening event will take place on 11 June. 100 children from the participating kindergarten Trnovo, Primary School Savsko naselje and Primary School Idrija together with...
Starting today, you can now follow MyMachine Slovenia on Facebook: www.facebook.com/mymachineslovenia Like the page to follow all creativity in elementary, middle and high schools and universities in Slovenia. All collaborating to create fabulous Sanjski Stroji. Read more on the MyMachine Slovenia website: www.mymachine.si
We are proud to share that MyMachine Slovenia has again been published in a Slovenian Newspaper, this time Primorski Val. As the first MyMachine Slovenia Cycle is reaching completion within 2 weeks, the press attention is focussing on the upcoming MyMachine Slovenia Exhibition. This Exhibition will showcase all creativity which has been taken place at the participating...
The MyMachine Flanders (Belgium) Grand Exhibition will take place 18-28 June 2015 at the Buda Arts Center in the City of Kortrijk. This Grand Exhibition is the final chapter of the MyMachine Flanders (Belgium) cycle 2014-2015. In this cycle more than 600 pupils and students from 21 different schools in Flanders participated. 18 June is...
Dinozaver za igrace in raketni avto: the article in the newspaper Primorske Novice explains the idea of MyMachine and goes into the different MyMachines that are now being built in Slovenia. The article explains 2 examples, the Dinosaur-Collect-My-Toys-Machine and the Car-Like-A Rocket-Machine. Within a couple of weeks, children in Slovenia will be able to discover their Dream...
MyMachine Flanders in Belgium, just launched their new call for participants 2015-2016. This call for participants aims at schools in Flanders and Brussels to participate at the MyMachine cycle 2015-2016 in Belgium. This new MyMachine cycle will start end of September 2015. If your school wants to apply, follow this link: http://mymachine.be/nieuws/gezocht-enthousiaste-scholen-voor-deelname-aan-mymachine-vlaanderen-2015-2016 We’re ready to...
MyMachine Slovenia has made it possible for MyMachine to be at the Open Education Global Conference 2015 (22-24 April 2015) in Banff, Alberta, Canada. The Open Education Global Conference is the annual opportunity for researchers, practitioners, policy makers and educators to deeply explore open education and its impact on global education. Conference participants will hear...
This is what happens when you ask adults in Oklahoma to draw their dream machine. No surprise there, you get proud people with brilliant inventions. We like !
MyMachine Oklahoma is starting up in August 2015 ! This is the result of combined efforts of Susan McCalmont, president of Creative Oklahoma and Jeanie Webb, president of the Rose State College. MyMachine Oklahoma is run by Stan Greil and his marvelous team at Rose State College in Oklahoma City. Rose State College offered its first classes on September 21,...
Piet Grymonprez, co-founder of MyMachine, was invited to talk about MyMachine at the Creativity World Forum 2015. The CWF was opened in de morning by Sir Ken Robinson, who gave his in-depth vision on the challenges the educational system has and its impact on our society. MyMachine was offered a spot in the time schedule...
Today we’re a little bit proud to announce that MyMachine is asked to speak at the Creativity World Forum 2015: “All of our Futures: ideas that matter!”. This event is this time hosted by Creative Oklahoma and will take place in Oklahoma City, USA on March 31st. The World Forum features a.o. speakers like...
Co-Founder Jan Despiegelaere visited MyMachine Obidos, Portugal. It’s great to see how MyMachine evolves in different regions. Here’s a short video impression called “Co-fundador do MyMachine visita Óbidos”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqPBCtrQzk4
Slovenian national radio has hosted MyMachine Slovenia in a live radio show titled “A look into science”. The show has focused on creativity in education and mostly on the innovative dream machines invented by kids in Slovenia and in Belgium. The listeners had a chance to hear about the ideas being realized in Slovenia currently:...
In 6 weeks time, 6 MyMachine inventors from the past were in the national tv-show, in which the guests could vote if the invention was brilliant or not. Guess what? MyMachine got 6 times brilliant! Here’s a stop motion were you see Brecht presenting his Ball-Cather/Fetcher machine: StopMotion_Brecht And here are some behind-the-scenes-pictures: ...
Mihajela Crnko who’s running MyMachine Slovenia was invited at the Ministry of Education and Science, Canton Sarajevo, Bosnia-Hercegovina — in Sarajevo to present MyMachine Slovenia. This was the first presentation and exchange of good practices between Slovenia and Bosnia-Hercegovina on the topic of open learning environments, open educational resources and new education technologies. Read more on the website of MyMachine...
Last week, MyMachine Belgium was on national television (VRT). MyMachine was a guest in the late night talk show called Bart & Siska. Here’s the link where you can watch MyMachine on the show (Dutch).
MyMachine Obidos, Portugal was on National Television today, explaining the methodology and the concept.
Today, the children of the Ten Bunderen school visited the Howest – Digital Arts & Entertainment campus in Kortrijk. They discovered their own invented game, developed by Digital Arts & Entertainment students. Oh, no surprise there, they loved it!
MyMachine Belgium was having its Work-in-Progress Event yesterday. It made it to the National Television News in Belgium (Dutch) and the Regional Television News (Dutch). Take a look at this short documentary to capture the vibe NATIONAL VRT JOURNAAL: REGIONAL WTV-FOCUS:
Today, more than 400 children visited the Howest Campus in the city of Kortrijk, to discover and discuss the progress made by the Howest Industrial Product Design Students. It was fabulous.
The final countdown…with some help from the Slovenian MyMachine team. Tomorrow invasion of 400 children who come to see their dream machines, we’re ready!
Tuesday 16 december Howest University of Applied Sciences is hosting the MyMachine Work-In-Progress again. 400 children will visit the Howest Industrial Product Design Students to discuss the progress they made, developing a product concept out of the drawings of their dream machines. The Howest students are working hard to finish the last preparations.
Mitja Jermol and Mihajela Crnko from MyMachine Slovenia have launched their own MyMachine website and we are very proud of this. It’s the first MyMachine website from outside of Belgium. You can now follow the development of the Sanjski Stroji (dream machines) from Slovenia here: www.mymachine.si
MyMachine Belgium and MyMachine Slovenia are in Berlin (Germany) today at the 20th edition of the International Online Educa Conference, bringing new technology to the educational stage. More than 40 new machines were invented, this time by grown-ups from all over the world: ranging from a Tie-Shoe-Machine, the Pairing-Single-Socks-Machine, the Machine-That-Can-Sculpt-And-Cave-An-Image to the Machine-To-Make-Me-Younger, the...
