What a wonderful video from MyMachine Portugal, showing the production of the amazing Jump-To-The-Moon Machine! The video shows the whole journey from ideation to working prototype! A magnificent result. Well done to all participating students! And a huge thank you to our amazing team of MyMachine Portugal!
We love this nice short video of Alice Nabeiro Educational Center students explaining the construction of the “Arca” dream-machine as they take part in MyMachine Portugal: We can’t wait to see the end result of this dream machine invented, designed and build in Campo Maior, Portugal. Stay tuned!
MyMachine Portugal yet again covered in Portuguese media: this article describes the dream machines that are being build this school year. The article also covers the important news that in central Portugal, ESAD University has made the MyMachine assignment a part of their curriculum. Third year students apply for the assignment which covers different parts...
Work continues in this part of MyMachine Portugal! Primary School Students (the inventors of the Dream Machines) and the Students of the Technical Secondary schools (the builders) in Vila Nova de Famalicão visited today the Universidade Lusíada. They could discuss and reflect with the University Students (the designers of the Dream Machines) about the final...
Exciting day ahead in Portugal as MyMachine Portugal will be featured on RTP, Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (National Radio & Television of Portugal). The documentary has been shot a couple of days ago and is broadcasted in a program called Radar XS tonight at 19:00h (Portuguese Time): The kids-news-item on MyMachine starts at 6m00s:...
Students from the ESAD university visited the technical secondary schools (CENFIM and CEERDL) as part of their MyMachine Portugal (Óbidos) assignment. By exchanging ideas with the technology and production savvy teachers from the technical secondary schools, the university students can better conceptualise the ideas. Their concepts need to take into account the production facility in...
Today we had the pleasure of launching our book What Is Your Dream Machine? How Children Change Education Worldwide in Portugal. We were honoured with the invitation of FOLIO, the International Literature Festival who hosted the event. FOLIO invited Miguel Silvestre – CEO Technology Park Obidos (Portugal) to moderate the talk. Joining the panel was...
Ever wanted to join MyMachine as a child yourself? Here’s your chance to feel what it’s like to participate in MyMachine. Obidos TV followed – during a whole school year – the elementary school children participating in MyMachine: you see how they were involved in the ideation in their own classroom, how they interacted with...
A great day for MyMachine Portugal yesterday! In the city of Campo Maior, MyMachine Portugal has signed a protocol for collaboration with the Associação Coração Delta, the Corporate Social Development program by Delta (Nabeiro Group). Delta Cafés was founded by Rui Nabeiro in 1961 in the town of Campo Maior, Alentejo, in a small 50 square...
Organising three exhibitions in the country, from the north to the south, doesn’t go unnoticed! MyMachine Portugal is now featured in Publico. Publico – a national newspaper with headquarters in Lisboa (the country’s capitol) – was awarded the European Newspaper of the Year by the European Newspapers Congress in 2014. The article explains how the university professors...
