Celebrating months of hard work. The final exhibition of this year’s run in MyMachine Slovenia was just that! Preschool children and students of primary school Otlica, OŠ Danila Lokarja Ajdovščina (primary school Vrtovin, Skrilje and Vipavaski Cross), Otroški vrtec Ajdovščina enota ob Hublju , OŠ Dobravlje! (prš Lokavec) and a group of preschool children O.Š....
Category: MyMachine Slovenia
MyMachine DreamsDrop video from primary school in Slovenia
Primary school teachers Polona Žorž, Tanja Maver Jamšek and Marija Slejko from the school in Vrtovin have made this wonderful video. They made it at the end of their participation in our annual MyMachine DreamsDrop Campaign, in which we offer the opportunity to primary school teachers worldwide to join with their students. This class invented...
Oops…1 MILLION!
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,...
MyMachine Slovenia presenting this year’s Dream Machines
Recently MyMachine Slovenia had the true pleasure of presenting the working prototypes of this year’s Dream Machines invented by children at the primary schools Col, Otlica, Draga Bajca Vipava (department at Goče) and Dobravlje Primary School (department at Vrtovin). A machine that waters flowers and makes a rainbow. A machine that helps children separate waste...
Brand new Dream Machines invented in Slovenia
That wonderful moment when primary school children invent their very own dream machine. Look at the hard work going on at the British International School of Ljubljana in Slovenia:
Talking about (lasting) impact!
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...
Rebel With A Cause
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....
Join our Mailing List
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...
Why making a machine to create snowballs in different sizes means the world to this child
MyMachine Slovenia has shared a beautiful testimonial by Prof. Sabina Vuga: As a little girl I had great dreams and a clear goal to become a teacher. I followed that dream to become one. I still enjoy this every day. At school, we face the daily challenges of how to provide students with a stimulating...
Global Coordinators Meeting in Kortrijk
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...
MyMachine at the 2nd World OER congress
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....
MyMachine Slovenia Final Exhibition 2016
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 announcing their 2016 Grand Exhibition
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...
Take a look at the brilliant new dream machines of MyMachine Slovenia
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 Slovenia Work In Progress 2016
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...
Children in Slovenia and Belgium want to see a working prototype of the ZOMBIE machine
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 Belgium and Slovenia creating together one dream machine !
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...
MyMachine at Unesco Preparatory Meeting in Brussels
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,...
MyMachine keynote speaker at the Internet of Education Conference 2015 in Sarajevo
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...
MyMachine Exhibition Slovenia and Belgium widely covered in the media
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...
Grand Opening of MyMachine Slovenia Exhibition
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...
MyMachine Slovenia article in Delo National Newspaper
“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...
MyMachine Slovenia video on one of the Dream Machines being built
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 is announcing its first Grand Exhibition 2015
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...
MyMachine Slovenia Facebook Page
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
MyMachine Slovenia in national newspaper
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...
MyMachine Slovenia in national newspaper
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 Slovenia on national radio
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:...
MyMachine Slovenia is now online with a brand new website: Sanjski Stroji
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