From Kosice to Bratislava, Slovakia is engulfed in intergenerational design thinking! Dream Machine Inventors from primary schools are visiting the universities, giving feedback to the university students designing a concept for their Dream Machines. That feedback is brutally honest. In other words: the university students can learn a lot from these amazing, yet demanding customers!...
We are humbled by the pride this company takes in being a partner of MyMachine in Slovakia. B/S/H/ Drives and Pumps is one of our esteemed company partners of MyMachine Slovakia. Based in Michalovce they are part of the BOSCH group. The company’s main activity is developing and producing electric motors, pumps and fans. The...
In the framework of MyMachine Slovakia, the end of November and the beginning of December are all about MyMachine meetings, where the first concepts for the new Dream Machines are being discussed. University students meet professionals of our industry partners Stredná odborná škola technická v Humennom, Nadácia Volkswagen Slovakia, Magna International, Duálna Akadémia, Deutsche Telekom...
Children in primary classes throughout the country are inventing an unprecedented amount of Dream Machine ideas! University students enter primary classes to invite the children to invent their Dream Machines. Anything goes, as long as they really, really want it. And they want a lot! Some take the opportunity to invent something fun, others for...
Marián Čekovský, Slovakian celeb, became public ambassador for MyMachine Slovakia in 2022. He recently released this video that makes us blush. He promotes our values, inviting all of us to keep dreaming and understanding that our ideas need the respect they deserve: to be explored to their full potential because they might be able to...
Not one, but three final exhibitions in Slovakia this year! What do you do when there are hundreds and hundreds of students all over the country collaborating in MyMachine? To secure proximity for the involved students, MyMachine Slovakia organises final exhibitions in Banská Bystrica, Kosice, and (capitol) Bratislava. Here’s a glimpse of how the Dream...
Not one, but three final exhibitions in Slovakia this year! What do you do when there are hundreds and hundreds of students all over the country collaborating in MyMachine? To secure proximity for the involved students, MyMachine Slovakia organises final exhibitions in Banská Bystrica, Kosice, and (capitol) Bratislava. Here’s a glimpse of how the Dream...
Not one, but three final exhibitions in Slovakia this year! What do you do when there are hundreds and hundreds of students all over the country collaborating in MyMachine? To secure proximity for the involved students, MyMachine Slovakia organises final exhibitions in Banská Bystrica, Kosice, and (capitol) Bratislava. Here’s a glimpse of how the Dream...
In the past few weeks, primary school students in Slovakia have been on discovery trips! They have been able to visit vocational/technical secondary schools to see what the production of the prototype looks like in real life. They were introduced to machine learning, for example, for the Pen-That-Can-Write-Homework. This was fun and sometimes disappointing –...
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,...
“This is an ideal school, I will enrol here to study”! “When I grow up, I’ll be an inventor”! Such words coming from fifth graders visiting the university, are a dream come true for us! When we create the right environment for students, they find opportunity and commitment. We are pleased by these sincere praises...
MyMachine Slovakia has successfully completed the second phase of the MyMachine methodology this year. University students designed a concept for the children’s inventions. This is the right time to ask for final feedback from the ‘clients’: university students are curious about what the children will say, and honestly – a little nervous, yet, they do...
Erika Dubñanská, a university student participating in MyMachine Slovakia: “I learned that combining creativity, knowledge, and skills can create something truly beautiful. Thanks to our work in MyMachine, children can feel like great inventors, and adults can nostalgically return to their childhoods. Such small but big things in our lives matter! In MyMachine, I enjoyed...
One of the very important things MyMachine teaches students is to persevere. Not giving up even when things go completely the other way than initially planned. To not be afraid of a difficult task such as creating a “Laughing Machine”. That is why it is such a joy to see how these students in Slovakia...
MyMachine Slovakia has been off to a tremendous start in this year’s MyMachine cycle. A massive creative wave is flooding Slovakia as hundreds of Dream Machines have been invented by students in primary classes throughout the country! University students have entered these primary classes to invite the children to think about their Dream Machine: anything...
Katarína Durovková from the MyMachine Slovakia team, based out in Bratislava, has been live on the popular morning program Teleráno on national television. Katarína explains the MyMachine methodology, and how it works, with some amazing examples of Dream Machines invented and elaborated in MyMachine Slovakia. This interview is giving widespread exposure to MyMachine in the...
This is Marián Čekovský: a moderator, entertainer, musician, singer, and leader of Marián Čekovský Band. He is in the top rankings of the most popular personalities on Slovak television. As an entertainer and improvisator, he has no competition; nothing can surprise him on stage. He is a multi-instrumentalist and one of the most acknowledged musicians...
Tuesday, June 28th: MyMachine Slovakia hosted its third 2022 exhibition, this time in Kosice (East Slovakia). This exhibition showcased Dream Machines invented and build by students from the Eastern part of the country. From the coffee-making machine to the music-making machine: each one sprung from the imagination of primary school students and was brought to...
Hugo’s mom: “Once again, I would like to thank you as a parent for the meaningful and imaginative activities with MyMachine. Such an amazing thing to transform ideas from the children’s minds into real results. We also applaud the idea of cooperation of the primary school students with older students from the secondary and university...
In Step 3 of the MyMachine methodology, the big question arises in the minds of the Primary Students: “How do these Vocational/Technical Secondary Students build a working prototype of our Dream Machine?“. Well, you know what? Let’s go and have a look! Children from Primary School Odorín in Slovakia visited their peers at the Vocational...
“Our participation in MyMachine strengthened our relationships”, Technical/Vocational High School students Filip, Jakub and Kristof. 10-year old Janko: “It’s great to bring something to life that once was only on paper”. April 21st, the annual World Creativity and Innovation Day doubled as the day of MyMachine Slovakia Prešov Expo. After the inauguration of the ‘Karts...
🇺🇦 Donate for Ukraine Our colleagues of MyMachine Slovakia are part of the Carpathian Foundation (Karpatská nadácia). Their HQ is located in Kosice, close to the Ukrainian border. They have a long, successful history of serving Slovakia, focusing on Eastern Slovakia. There are now more than 75 000 Ukrainian refugees in Slovakia, and each day...
MyMachine Liège (Belgium, Europe) has been endorsed in this leading business magazine Trends-Tendances. The article states that “aeronautics is fighting to retain its talents. While the entire industry is fighting to attract technical and scientific profiles, aeronautics is still idling and fears a talent drain”. The article features an interview with Clarisse Ramakers from Agoria, the...
MyMachine Liège (Belgium, Europe) shares a beautiful interview with 2 university students, giving a testimony on their experiences with the MyMachine program. Ferdinand de Meeûs d’Argenteuil and Maxime Coutelier are students at Enginerering College Helmo Gramme in Liège. In this interview, they are accompanied by Yannik Letawe, Professor at Gramme. This interview, wich was live...
The past couple of weeks has seen exponential growth in creativity in Slovakia! University students participating in MyMachine Slovakia have been visiting students in Primary classes throughout the country. These children are invited to make a drawing of their Dream Machine. Anything goes, as long as they really, really want it. Look at all these...
It’s always a blast when we can share impact stories! Karin Kolesárová, university student TUKE University: “I like connecting school knowledge with practice, and I’m looking for exciting opportunities that will help me develop not only my portfolio but also my overall mindset when designing projects. In MyMachine, I learned to work together and understand...
The new MyMachine year in Slovakia has started! A big, beautiful, and magical moment at the beginning of MyMachine: students of the participating universities visit their “customers” – the Primary School Children. They invent their new, amazing dream machines -anything goes, as long as they really, really want it- and draw a picture from their...
Talking impact from MyMachine Slovakia! Matej Matejčík, student UNIZA University: “I was intrigued by the main idea of a program where we show children that nothing is impossible. This is twice as true for a computer game. The whole MyMachine program gave me a huge amount of experience and thanks to it I improved communication,...
MyMachine Slovakia organised their 2021 Exposition in Bratislava, putting those dream machines on display created by Western Slovak schools. Photo: Renáta Černayová – The travel rocket that will transport them to four places on Earth. The MyMachine Expo at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava united all...
Meanwhile in Slovakia: the last invention delivered in 2021 is the Radio-Basket – a vacuum cleaner for radioactivity. What a brilliant idea! This invention is a common work of children from Spojená škola Letná Poprad, college students of Strojnícka fakulta TUKE and Stredná priemyselná škola techniky a dizajnu Poprad. The idea itself was a ′mission impossible′ for our college...
At the beautiful campus of Žilina University, MyMachine Slovakia handed over the first two working prototypes. The Child-Inventors from primary schools in Žilina and Tvrdošína could finally discover the final version of their computer games Adventure of Strelka and Mobilodronom in Slovakia. Students of the UNIZA Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology programmed...
We are thrilled to share that MyMachine will be featured at the Building Lifelong Learning Systems: Skills For Green and Inclusive Societies In The Digital Era. This event which will take place from 21 to 25 June 2021, is jointly organised by The European Training Foundation and UNESCO. The conference, which is organised with the collaboration of...
Bratislava calling! Thank you Teraz.sk for this article on MyMachine Slovakia! With some amazing quotes from business and university point of view : Veronika Klesniaková from BBSK, highlighting the benefits of the intergenerational approach within MyMachine; and Michaela Hnilicová from the Technical University in Zvolen, highlighting the powerful mix of creativity, innovation and technology within...
Do you know how the Operative Portal Exposing Invisible Attributes works? You don’t? Of course not! This year’s invention of students from Primary School Š Lermontovova, is being conceptualised by university students of Strojnícka Fakulta TUKE in Kosice, Slovakia. In this short video by university students Matus and Tomáš, they pitch their concept to the clients:...
Vice President of Deutsche Telekom IT Solutions Slovakia Juraj Girman is a significant and long time partner of the Carpathian Foundation, our highly esteemed partner running MyMachine Slovakia. In this video Mr. Girman is explaining how he perceives the cooperation and what companies and organisations can do for a better Slovakia. We are proud that...
Early February in MyMachine Slovakia, students of FEIT-Fakulta elektrotechniky a informačných technológií, Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology at UNIZA university met with high school students from Súkromná škola umeleckého priemyslu, in Žilina. After the children in primary school invented the Talking Cat as their dream machine, these students came up with the idea of translating...
After inventing their dream machine, the children in the primary class have regular opportunities to connect with the university students who are designing a concept for their dream machine. While the university students are having meetings with professionals from the technical secondary schools, industry and the MyMachine community on the proposed concepts, the most engaging...
Bratislava is setting the scene for a new alliance with its universities in Slovakia. This newspaper article titles: “The Children Will Not Wait Project: Universities should work with other school levels”. Slovakia envisages in the forthcoming partnership agreement the connection of universities to science and employers, while the proposals completely omitted the emphasis on cooperation...
MyMachine Slovakia 🇸🇰 is expanding in myriad ways. The first pilot was in the city of Kosice in the East of the country. After that, it has grown rapidly to different cities across the country, and this year even including the capitol Bratislava in the West of the country. Today our team in Slovakia is...
Slovakian University Student Lukáš participated in MyMachine Slovakia in the 2019-2020 edition. He made a video encouraging new university students to follow in his footsteps; to take part in MyMachine as it brings invaluable experiences. Lukáš talks about what he thinks MyMachine is giving him / gave him: school can teach you a lot of...
MyMachine Slovakia is hiring! Our partner Karpatska Nadacia is the driving force behind MyMachine Slovakia and they are expanding the program to the West of the country. This job vacancy is a part-time job and is looking for a project coordinator in or around the capital Bratislava. This person will report directly to the MyMachine...
It’s a never ending good feeling to be on the positive side of news. But this one is extra special: Dobre Noviny is a positive news agency in Slovakia. This article on MyMachine Slovakia is bringing an update on the current MyMachine cycle and the plans for the 2020 MyMachine Slovakia exhibition later this year....
One dream machine from this year’s run in MyMachine Slovakia has been completed! We proudly introduce you to MyMachine MiniGames. The first computer game that was created in MyMachine Slovakia. The MiniGames were based on ideas from children from Hroncova primary school in Košice. The production of the MiniGames was done by students of FEIT...
Proud moment again from MyMachine Slovakia! RTVS covers the Work In Progress Part 2 at TUKE University in Kosice. Check out the wonderful dynamics and the shining eyes of the students and educators! It starts at 43:22: RTVS Documentary on MyMachine. Thank you to all involved for making this event such a success!
Work-In-Progress is the exquisite moment in which the customers -the dream machine inventors from primary class rooms- give their final feedback to the university students, who have been translating the dream machine ideas into a concept. MyMachine Slovakia has participating schools in different parts of the country. That is why their Work-In-Progress event is now...
Work-In-Progress is the exquisite moment in which the customers -the dream machine inventors from primary class rooms- give their final feedback to the university students, who have been translating the dream machine ideas into a concept. MyMachine Slovakia has participating schools in different parts of the country. That is why their Work-In-Progress event is now...
BREAKING NEWS: The presidential palace of President of Slovakia Zuzana Čaputová is safe from bad ghosts! At the occasion of the 25th Anniversary Gala from the Carpathian Foundation, the President spoke about the importance of the work of The Carpathian Foundation for Eastern Slovakia and for the whole of Slovakia. On Thursday February 6, the...
Co-Founder Piet Grymonprez had the privilege to talk this morning about design thinking for 50 co-workers at the Experience Lab of the second largest employer of Eastern Slovakia: T-Systems Slovakia. Thank you to all at T-Systems who were involved for having us and thank you for the big amount of new dream machine ideas invented...
It’s always a thrill to see the connections between the university students participating in MyMachine and professionals from companies. This time round the engineering students from TUKE university are discussing their solutions with the professionals from our main company partner Magna PT s.r.o., the leading manufacturer of gearboxes in Slovakia. The Magna experts and senior...
Dobra Skola is a national platform and a community that provides information about what is happening in the world of education and providing teachers with incentives and materials suitable for their further education and professional growth. They want to inspire, present modern forms and methods of education, provide resources that can be used directly in the classroom...
Higher Education Students participating in MyMachine, go through an amazing hands-on experience (including budget restraints and deadlines), similar to their future jobs: they learn to listen to their customer, in this case the Primary School child (a very demanding and brutally honest customer by the way); they learn to use their own knowledge and knowhow...
MyMachine Slovakia was invited to the live show of Radio Regina to talk about the impact of MyMachine on students, teachers, companies and the education system. Thank you to Mrs. Danuši Reginovej for the invitation and the very pleasant interview. Listen to the interview here: https://www.rtvs.sk/radio/archiv/1541/1241302
Look and listen to the children in this Primary School in Slovakia explaining their dream machine! Wonderful documentary by Vychodoslovenska TV on the first step in the MyMachine methodology in this particular school in Slovakia. We see nothing but shining eyes! Thank you to the whole team of MyMachine Slovakia to make this happen!
This week was another invention week in Slovakia! Step 1 of MyMachine is when university students enter the Primary School for the ideation process. This time round, the university students of the faculty of Mechanical Engineering and of the Faculty of the Arts at TUKE University (Kosice) witnessed the children at the primary school in...
Last week MyMachine Slovakia had yet another invention workshop. This time with the young students at the primary school in Košice. University students of the faculties of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies entered the primary classroom to elaborate the creativity session with the young inventors. The university students have now started to translate those ideas...
Yes! It’s that marvellous time of the year again in MyMachine Slovakia! University students have entered the primary class rooms to start the collaboration. The children are asked what dream machine they would want to create. They make a drawing and explain their idea to the other children in the classroom. It really is a...
It was a seated-dinner event on invitation only. An Evening With MyMachine 2019 was hosted at the same location where the MyMachine Flanders & Brussels exhibition 2019 was on display: Belvue Musuem in downtown Brussels. The beautiful venue can host 80 people in this setting, so we had to limit the number of available seats...
MyMachine Slovakia is featured in IndexMag. The beautiful article explains how MyMachine works and elaborates on the MyMachine Slovakia exhibition in June. Read the article here: https://indexmag.sk/2019/06/19/5-novych-vynalezov-sa-predstavilo-na-mymachine-slovakia-expo-2019/ IndexMag is an initiative by Kosice IT Valley. In the development of the IT industry in the Košice region cluster Košice IT Valley plays an important role. The association was established...
It was yesterday. It was in Kosice. It was on campus of TUKE, the Technical University of Kosice. It was absolutely marvellous! The participating primary, secondary and higher education students and teachers and professors discovered the elaborated dream machines. The working prototypes were not just on display, but on the contrary needed to be tested. Of...
When we asked Viktor what he’d taken away from his participation in MyMachine Slovakia as a product design student at the Technical University of Kosice (Tuke), he said “there’s a lot to say about that: the anxiety of having to work for young children, the promise them that a solution will be found and the...
You’re Invited! The 2019 MyMachine Slovakia Exhibition opens on June 18th. At 10am the hundreds of students, teachers and professors who participated in MyMachine will gather to discover and test the working prototypes of five invented dream machines. The exhibition will take place at the Library of the Technical University of Kosice (TUKE): Němcovej 7, 042...
Mark your calendars! June 18th starting at 10am, all students from primary, secondary and higher education will gather at the MyMachine Slovakia 2019 exhibition to explore the working prototypes from the dream machines invented by the primary school children. The exhibition will be at the Technical University of Kosice (TUKE). The day will start at...
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...
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...
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...
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:
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,...
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....
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...
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 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...
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.
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 https://www.facebook.com/karpatskanadacia/videos/10155954961029155/
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
