Collaboration in real-life. Not in textbooks. A lot happens when you co-create: creativity sparks at the beginning, and perseverance gets you through the most challenging moments of going from idea to concept to working prototype. That’s how it looks when hundreds of students and educators in primary, secondary and higher education co-create Dream Machines. In...
8 minutes of tremendous creativity and collaboration. This year’s grand exhibition of MyMachine Flanders&Brussels (Belgium) was divided into separate events for each of the elaborated dream machines. These inauguration events were done at the premises of the respective primary schools. They united all participating students: primary, secondary and university level, all celebrating the result of...
The first 2 Dream Machines of MyMachine Flanders & Brussels (Belgium) are delivered to the primary schools. This video reveals the inauguration of the Flying Sleeping Bag 😃 or better known as The-making-going-to-sleep-so-much-fun-machine! Amazing feedback in the interviews with primary, secondary, and university students as well as educators and business people; all explaining what MyMachine...
Every year the King Baudouin Foundation organises a fundraiser for its Community Foundation West-Flanders (home to MyMachine co-founder Jan Despiegelaere). As has been the case in one of the previous editions a couple of years back, MyMachine Flanders & Brussels was highlighted as an example of how an education approach can add to the community...
The final occasion for the primary school inventors to discuss the proof-of-concepts designed by the university students: yesterday primary school children, secondary school students and higher education students from the east of Belgium joined the MyMachine Work-in-Progress at PXL University of Applied Sciences in the city of Hasselt. Next to exploring the final proof-of-concepts, the...
The Dream Machines were invented early October ’19. The higher education students have had several interactions with their clients so far; cumulating to this Work-In-Progress event today. Participating Primary School Students and Technical/Vocational Secondary Level Students from the West side of the country, visited the Industrial Design Center at Howest University of Applied Sciences in...
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...
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...
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 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...
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, 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!
Proud people in a proud photo: MyMachine Obidos, Portugal has signed the MyMachine license. MyMachine Obidos is run by Miguel Silvestre, Ana Sofia Godinho from Obitec Technology Park (Obidos) and Filipe Pinto from the IPL University (Leiria). MyMachine Obidos has started a feasibility exercise involving 100 children and students. We will soon be able to reveal...
To all teachers of the Northern Hemisphere, wishing you all a wonderful start tomorrow and an inspiring, creative, joyful year. You all are builders of something potentially great!
The Nyrstar Foundation awards the 2012-2013 grant to the new MyMachine North-South project. With childlike imagination as a starting point, MyMachine aims to leverage its unique methodology to promote creativity and entrepreneurship in education in developing countries. The project is a cross-border cooperation between schools and organisations in Flanders, Belgium and in developing countries. The pilot...
September 29th 2011: MyMachine is introduced to Belgian astronaut Frank De Winne. Frank De Winne was the first non-American Chief Commander of the International Space Station (ISS) and was also via sattelite for one song the fifth member of U2 on their latest world tour (U2 360). Frank showed immediate interest in the “Jump-to-the-moon-machine” and...
Saturday 24th of September, MyMachine was on stage on the TEDx Flanders event in the Flemish Opera in Antwerp (Belgium). TED is an American event-format that presents new ideas, products and concepts. Some of these TED Talks become a hype on the internet, like the 2006 TED-Talk by Sir Ken Robinson on ‘Do schools kill creativity?’,...
MyMachine, as a true bottom-up initiative, was recently triggered by Sir Ken Robinson. Ken Robinson, PhD is an internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity, innovation and human resources. In 1998, he led a national commission on creativity, education and the economy for the UK Government. ‘All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education’ (The...
MyMachine is honored by the United Nations World Summit 2009. The award honors creative projects and initiatives worldwide. MyMachine was honored by the WSA International Grand Jury ‘for it’s concept to promote creativity in education, its beautiful website (made in collaboration with Indiegroup) and exceptional example of creativity and innovative e-content’. Click...
