Last week, the primary school students of the 1st year of the Josefa de Óbidos Group of Schools, visited the University Superior School of Arts and Design of Caldas da Rainha, to approve the technical drawings of the Dream Machines. This is one of those critical moments in MyMachine. The designers/engineers (the university students) get...
Here are 10 of the 3,000 Dream Machine drawings made during the Óbidos Vila Natal Festival in December 2023. Óbidos is the city that hosts the MyMachine Portugal HQ and the unique MyMachine House. The end of year festival attracts thousands of visitors. A marvellous occasion to ask them to make a drawing of their...
Mining the unlimited creativity of young Portugal. These brilliant minds are not limited by their knowledge. Therefore, they are totally free of any constraints on their thinking and creativity. And they did come up with groundbreaking ideas! The ones we, adults, would probably boycott the moment they pop up. And that is precisely why MyMachine...
Fernanda Bernardino is the director of Centro de Educação Especial Rainha D. Leonor, a centre for special education in Portugal. Recently, she made us blush with this fantastic testimony: “It is with great pleasure and pride that our school participates in MyMachine. The cooperation between all students creates an innovative space for sharing knowledge, crucial...
Celebration should be an attitude. That’s exactly what happened last Friday when MyMachine Portugal launched its 2023 exhibition at the MyMachine House in Obidos. The medieval town of Obidos attracts 2 million visitors a year. Annually in October, they also host Folio, the biggest literary festival in Portugal. All of this combined is the extraordinary...
We were so busy last year that we forgot to celebrate reaching a 7 figure milestone: 💪🏼1 Million student-hours of building creative confidence! We’re now at 1.3M, which is like going to school* for 738 years. * Not just any school, but probably the most creative Dream Machine School on the planet. The MyMachine Co-Founders Filip Meuris,...
The second stage of the MyMachine methodology consists of designing the concept for the Dream Machine. University students develop technical drawings and proofs-of-concept for the Dream Machines invented by the primary school children. In Obidos we have an extraordinary university partner that collaborates in this second stage, the Escola Superior de Artes e Design de...
It’s with a heavy heart that we heard about the passing of Mr Rui Nabeiro Sunday evening. In 2019 we were blessed with the partnership we started between the Nabeiro Group and MyMachine Portugal. It was Mr Rui Nabeiro himself who came to the MyMachine Portugal exhibition in Campo Maior to sign the agreement with MyMachine...
Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP), founded in 1935, is the public service broadcasting organisation of Portugal. RTP journalist Rita Fernandes has made a piece on the MyMachine House in Obidos that opened in November 2022. Enchanting Óbidos is one of Portugal’s most beautiful destinations and one of Europe’s best-preserved medieval villages or walled towns....
This school year’s ideation in Portugal is a wrap. Children in primary class were invited to invent their Dream Machine, and make a drawing of it. Here is an example of the Furadouro School Complex. The children of the 1st grade presented their Dream Machine: a machine to collect food and help people. After designing...
An incredible milestone in the history of MyMachine! Friday, November 11th, marked the official opening of a dedicated MyMachine House in the city of Óbidos. Enchanting Óbidos is one of Portugal’s most beautiful destinations and one of Europe’s best-preserved medieval villages or walled towns. Everywhere you turn is a postcard view, and that has inevitably...
During Folio (6-16 October 2022), MyMachine Portugal runs a marvelous exhibition in Vila de Portugalbidos, with a selection of Dream Machines invented over the past years. Children, Parents, visitors of Folio, teachers and their students, are all invited to enter this amazing space. They are challenged to invent their very own Dream Machine! Simon (6)...
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Meanwhile, in Portugal: students in Famalicão finished their co-creation magic on some of the invented dream machines of this year’s cycle. Delivering Dream Machines is not the actual goal in MyMachine. Students participating in MyMachine learn how to bring their ideas to life by collaborating, respecting each other’s talents, and being persistent and resilient. They...
We are thrilled that MyMachine Portugal has been able to deliver a first – in this school year- finished working prototype to one of the participating primary schools: Complexo Escolar dos Arcos. This “Robot”-machine was invented in Obidos. The child-inventors want a dream machine that plays with them on the playground of the school. It has...
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!
Ever wondered how it looks like from the perspective of the Primary Class joining MyMachine? Here’s a truly great video by MyMachine Portugal. You are getting 8 months of hard work in 8 minutes. MyMachine is not a quick interaction in the classroom, but a deep co-creation process. The video shows the whole process from...
MyMachine Portugal has been growing year after year. It started in Óbidos (Central Portugal), but expanded to the North and South. This article in Cidade Hoje is focusing on Famalicão. It celebrates how MyMachine Portugal is enhancing creativity with all participating students. Thank you to our splendid MyMachine Portugal team for making MyMachine Portugal shine...
Yes, the child-inventors are engaged from inventing their dream machine to conceptualising it and building a real working prototype. Which is exactly what you see here happening in MyMachine Portugal! Stay tuned, as we will shortly be able to reveal the nature of this dream machine!
Focus on the new dream machines coming in from MyMachine Portugal today! The first classes have been invented to invent their dream machines. Different schools in different cities around the country are starting up the new MyMachine cycle. We are so happy to share the first pictures that came in. More to come, obviously, as...
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...
Last week we were honoured to launch our book in Portugal at FOLIO International Literature Festival. We are happy to report that there has been quite some media coverage on our launch. Here’s how Parque Technologico Obidos and PNMF made us proud by saying: “É a leitura mais recomendada do ano para sonhadores, educadores, pais...
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...
We are delighted to announce the official launch of our book What Is Your Dream Machine? How Children Change Education Worldwide in Portugal. MyMachine Portugal and Folio are collaborating to launch the book. This will happen at the Opening Night of the International Literature Festival Folio in Obidos. On Friday October 11th MyMachine Co-Founder Piet Grymonprez...
Yesterday, Ana Sofia Godinho – MyMachine Portugal Coordinator – was featured as leading example in Guimarães at an Intermunicipal Meeting with the Multidisciplinary Teams of the Integrated and Innovative Plan to Combat Ave School Failure (PIICIE do Ave). This seminar is part of PIICIE do Ave, as a subregional educational strategy with measures and projects...
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...
MyMachine Portugal is announcing their new MyMachine 2019 Exhibition. MyMachine Portugal has been growing immensely this year, expanding from where it all started in Obidos. Since 2018-2019, Ana Sofia Godinho in Obidos has been very successful in expanding the model to the North of Portugal in Famalicão and to the South of Portugal in Campo...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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....
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...
Today the elaborated prototype of the Cuddles Machine was in the Alvito School complex. The inventor children could discover and test the actual prototype. It looks really beautiful and somehow pulls you in. Did you know this machine will also be supportive? Soon we’ll tell you everything.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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
MyMachine Obidos, Portugal was on National Television today, explaining the methodology and the concept.
