Established in 1958, The Australian Good Design Awards are the highest honour for design and innovation in the country. MyMachine is recognised in Australia’s International Good Design Awards for Excellence in Design and Innovation, and received this prestigious award winner accolade, not in one, but in two(!) categories: Social Impact and Service Design. This extraordinary news...
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...
“At our elementary school, we try to give our students every opportunity to grow academically and socially-emotionally. Children with autism spectrum disorder and behavioural problems need a safe learning environment to grow and break through the resistance to school work. Learning to work together with different age groups, discovering their talents and coming into contact...
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...
Creativity going global! In February, we launched our MyMachine DreamsDrop Campaign 2023 to Primary School Teachers around the globe. We are deeply honoured and grateful for the response we got on our annual campaign. Teachers in 13 countries on three continents joined (Belgium, Canada, Croatia, India, Italy, Liechtenstein, Mexico, Mozambique, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, USA)....
This excellent brand new video in French, is made by MyMachine Liège (Belgium). You’re taken on a tour by an elementary school child who explains beautifully the three steps of the MyMachine methodology. All of which is captured with authentic footage taken from past year’s run of MyMachine Liège. Thank you so much to our...
We’re so excited that the second edition of MyMachine Mexico has officially kicked off! After the children in primary classes invented their dream machines, our MyMachine Mexico team organised a launch event to celebrate their creativity and entrepreneurial spirits. In this year’s round, students across elementary schools, universities and vocational/technical secondary schools will collaborate in...
Using his professional background in creative consulting and innovation, Leonard Sommer started the research project Classroom Thinktank to encourage and enable dialogue and resources to be shared between creative industries and education. Assuming the whole education system will need to make a radical transition in many countries worldwide, he asked more than 100 creatives and...
A splendid video on MyMachine in Chihuahua, Mexico! This video shows footage of the first MyMachine cycle in Ciudad Juarez, and contains excellent insights into the impact on students and the education system. MyMachine Chihuahua is powered by Fundación Paso del Norte (Fundación Paso del Norte para la Salud y Bienestar). Our MyMachine Chihuahua team...
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...
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...
“MyMachine gave me the vision that entrepreneurship should be about improving the life of others”, says Ferdinand de Meeûs d’Argenteuil on stage at the annual Donors Assembly of Pulse Foundation. This event in Brussels, Belgium, annually gathers the donors of the Pulse Foundation to exchange insights on the importance of entrepreneurship. We were honoured to...
Young people’s dreams are hitting the news in Belgium! Different regional television broadcast companies have been covering the big reveals of several Dream Machines. These reveals take place at the primary school that invented them. The child inventors have been involved in the whole process from inception to the making of these working prototypes. But...
Celebrating your birthday at school will never be the same again! The Fantandem makes it even more fun! Ride the bike, and the sweets are thrown around for your friends to catch! This Dream Machine was invented by 2nd graders in Sint-Truiden, Belgium. Regional television TV Limburg joined us to document this big reveal: Next...
Turning all days of the week into Happy Days! That was the dream of Vicky’s class in primary school Spoor 9 & De Sassepoort in Gent (Belgium). Today was the big reveal of this Make-Me/Us-Happy machine. It’s a magical fitting room that allows two children to engage in interactive games to make them happy. The...
While Belgium is engulfed in a heatwave these days, playing in rainy weather sounds like a wonderful idea! But what should we do with those filthy, muddy, shoes when entering school? Primary school children at Groeicampus Lager in Genk came up with this clever solution: the ShoeWash. This Interactive-Shoe-Washing-Machine works on human power. It was...
Child-inventors, university students, vocational/technical secondary students, teachers, professors, ministers, and other stakeholders gathered in Saive, Belgium, last week for the final exhibition of this year’s run of MyMachine Liège (Belgium). While they obviously know the Dream Machine they worked on, all involved could discover all the Dream Machines, like the Arathe-Shoe-Cleaner-Spider, Holographic-Alarm-Clock-Poke and the Interactive-Trash-Can....
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,...
With confetti bonanza and engaging words along the way from vice-chancellor of research and interdisciplinary efforts Hans Kjetil Lysgård and deputy mayor Erik Rostoft, functioning prototypes of five new Dream Machines were revealed in Norway last week! These amazing Dream Machines are developed jointly by elementary school classes, vocational secondary classes, and engineering students and...
Roberto Vdovic from MyMachine Croatia was on the main stage today at the Philea Forum 2023 plenary closing session. With individual philanthropies and national-level infrastructure organisations in over 30 countries as members, Philea unites over 10,000 public-benefit foundations that seek to improve life for people and communities in Europe and around the world. More than...
MyMachine USA pulled off their 2nd successful MyMachine cycle! It finished with a reveal to the 2nd graders at Linton-Stockton School Corporation in Greene County, Indiana, on May 18th. “We had better ideas working together as a group than if we would have done this all by ourselves”, says Jackson (7). Along with Susan Anderson, Paul...
The whole point of MyMachine is to experience how challenging, but also wildly nice it is to create new solutions through interdisciplinary collaboration. Here’s an example from Norway. At Dahlske technical secondary school, students from Technology and Industry and students from Automation are joining forces to build the Stand-Up Machine. Mathea, Annika and Casper have made...
Two days in a row, we went in low-stimulus mode at Howest University in Belgium. This time around, we didn’t host hundreds and hundreds of young creative minds all at the same time. Instead, we organised consecutive tailor-made workshops developed by Occupational Therapy students at Howest University to host small groups of primary school children...
We’re thrilled to share this video with you today. It’s a selection of students, professors, industry people, and MyMachine coordinators who were willing to share some thoughts about how MyMachine challenged their creativity. Every year on April 21, the UN celebrates World Creativity and Innovation Day to raise awareness about the role of innovation and...
Creating a machine that allows you to fly is demanding. Creating a machine that allows you to fly safely is perhaps even more demanding. One of the participating primary school classes in Norway had a special day today. These 3rd graders went to the technical/vocational secondary school vg2 Treteknikk, to test whether the prototype of their...
Students and professors of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Pristina presented the designed concepts they made, to the vocational/technical secondary students of Kelmend Rizvanolli and Zekeria Rexha in Gjakova. Yes, they are building “Dream Machines”, but don’t be fooled: MyMachine is serious business. It’s about diving deep into your creative skills...
The USA-based EdTech Awards recognizes people for outstanding contributions in transforming education through technology to enrich the lives of learners everywhere. Featuring edtech’s best and brightest, the annual program shines a spotlight on cool tools, inspiring leaders and innovative trendsetters across the K-12, Higher Education, and Skills and Workforce sectors. The EdTech Awards recognize people—and...
MyMachine Liège is building the working prototypes! The 3 steps in MyMachine are not divided. Students from primary, vocational/technical secondary, and university level co-create the Dream Machines! Here’s a great example of that from MyMachine Liège (Belgium). Last week, the technical secondary school l’Athénée Royal Princesse Elizabeth organised a workshop for the primary school children....
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...
We are thrilled to announce our partnership with the Belgian Pulse Foundation. Pulse Foundation is founded by influential European entrepreneurial families. The chair of the Pulse Foundation is Count Tanguy du Monceau. The Pulse Foundation brings together families of entrepreneurs who share the same vision: through the jobs and added value it creates, through the innovation...
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...
“Dreams can foster creative confidence: How MyMachine inspires students to believe in their ideas”. This is the title for a brand new article on our work. HundrED is a global mission-driven organisation specialised in education innovation. Based in Helsinki, Finland, HundrED operates globally. Finland has a very strong reputation when it comes to education. And...
We are deeply honoured and grateful for the response we got on our annual campaign. We invited primary school teachers around the world to join with their students. Teachers in 13 countries on three continents joined (Belgium, Canada, Croatia, India, Italy, Liechtenstein, Mexico, Mozambique, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, USA). 748 students invented their Dream Machine....
February 23rd was a big day for the 2nd grade of the Linton-Stockton School Corporation in Greene County, Indiana (USA)! It marked the big reveal for their Dream Machine prototypes! These elementary students have invented their Dream Machine. Indiana University Design students have translated that idea into a Concept. The university students gathered final feedback...
“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...
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....
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...
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...
PXL university in Belgium opens the doors for the MyMachine participants! Using functional models, the interdisciplinary student teams of the university presented the final concepts of the Dream Machines to primary school students with whom they have been working since the beginning of October 2022. Which STEM principles are incorporated in the Shoe-Wash, the automatic...
The MyMachine Global Foundation is rethinking how we speak to potential partners and donors, and we are eager to integrate the views of our valued friends into the new messaging we will develop. Would you be willing to be part of this process and to add your voice?Thank you so much! Here is the link...
January 19, 2023, was a fabulous milestone in our history! MyMachine Catalonia (Spain) hosted its very first exhibition! After many months of hard work, all participating students (primary, secondary and university level) gathered in Elisava, iVic-UCC Faculty of Design and Engineering in Barcelona. 175 child-inventors could finally discover and test the working prototype of their...
Right before the winter break, something amazing happened in Liège, Belgium! The Work-In-Progress Event by MyMachine Liège invited the Primary School Students to visit the university. As inventors, they are the customers to cater. This event invites these demanding and brutally honest customers to giving feedback on the designs elaborated by the University Students. On...
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...
Wishing you good health and a mighty good year full of creativity and joy! The MyMachine Global Team!
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...
What happens when university students at the world’s best game design university take on your Dream Machine idea? That is what the primary school students of the 2nd grade of Leefschool De Vlieger in Ostend (Belgium) were eager to find out! They went on a trip to the School of Digital Arts & Entertainment (DAE)...
The Fueling Creativity in Education podcast “provides listeners with unique insights into the field of creativity research, including best practices for applying this knowledge to a traditional school environment. Thanks to deep dive interviews with renowned creativity scholars, respected practitioners, and passionate educators, every teacher and administrator will walk away with new strategies that inspire...
MyMachine Chihuahua, Mexico has delivered their first Dream Machines! The very first cycle took place in school year 2021-2022. The results and the feedback are excellent, as Edgar Gamíz (6 years) testifies: “I was very excited to see that the machine I dreamed of could be designed and presented for more people to see. Many...
“And the Oscar goes to…”. December 7th marked another excellent milestone for MyMachine as we received the Reimagine Education Presence Learning Silver Award! Considered ‘the Oscars’ of education, the Reimagine Education Awards is the largest global awards program for innovative pedagogies. The Awards, organised by the Wharton School and QS Quacquarelli Symonds, celebrate approaches that...
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...
It is our tremendous pleasure to share that MyMachine has (once again) been nominated for Reimagine Education. Considered ‘the Oscars’ of education, the Reimagine Education Awards is the largest global awards program for innovative pedagogies. The Awards, organised by the Wharton School and QS Quacquarelli Symonds, celebrate approaches that enhance student learning outcomes and employability,...
Changing Education is a student-led podcast series that connects the globally renowned Finnish education approach to international stakeholders of the global education space. For this episode, Alexandra Biris has reached out to MyMachine Co-Founder Piet Grymonprez. Alexandra is a full-time student at the University of Helsinki, completing a Master in Changing Education. Her academic interests...
Historical day in Kosovo! The very first Dream Machines are invented in the framework of MyMachine Kosovo! We are thrilled to share the first images from Kosovo. These come from the schools Zekeria Rexha in Gjakova and Kelmend Rizvanolli School in Gjakova. Students in 5th grade were invited to imagine their Dream Machine, make a...
<< Deadline extended to February 12th >> A marvellous opportunity to have the students in your class invent their Dream Machines! And who knows, perhaps even an elaborated Proof-Of-Concept. Are you a teacher in primary school and want to join? It’s straightforward: this is how it works: 1/ have the children in your primary class invent and draw...
It is with tremendous pleasure that we announce a newly signed contract with MyMachine South Africa. MyMachine South Africa is successfully established a few years back in collaboration with our partner, The Initiative for Community Advancement (ICA). As of today, MyMachine South Africa will be a close collaboration between ICA and Open Design Afrika (ODA)....
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...
MyMachine Mexico has delivered their first Dream Machines! The very first cycle took place in school year 2021-2022. 12 schools and educational programs in the city of Ciudad Juárez have participated. 4 primary schools joined (Primaria Domingo Bravo Oviedo, Primaria Tlacaélel, Primaria Ramón Espinoza Villanueva, and Colegio Hellen Keller) with over 70 primary school students....
More than 300 students in primary classes in Flanders & Brussels (Belgium, Europe) were given a mission: to awaken the creative power in themselves and create something no one has shown them: the machine of their dreams! As university students were entering these primary classes to invite the young students to be creative, hundreds of...
Whoa! Testing out the mock-ups! University students at the University of Agder have hosted a Work-In-Progress event at the university. Participating primary school students visited the university to give final feedback on the elaborated proof of concepts made by the university students. Proof of Concepts of the Pirate-Pig-Wiggly-Funny-Machine, the Stand-Up-Machine, the Flying-Machine, The-Speed-Sweater, and the...
We have big news!! Apart from being in the HundrED Global Collection again, we’re also one of the four innovations on the planet that have been selected to become part of the HundrED Hall of Fame! This is a high-end collection of Education Innovations that have demonstrated sustained growth of impact and scalability. In order to be...
We are thrilled to announce that MyMachine has been selected -for the 4th year in a row- for HundrED’s renowned list of the World’s Top Innovations in Education! Crystal Green, Head of Research, HundrED: “To make this year’s Global Collection 188 Academy Members consisting of academics, educators, innovators, funders, and leaders from 113 countries performed...
A brand new MyMachine Cycle just took off in Liège, Belgium (Europe). Students from Helmo Gramme University have entered primary classes to ask the children our open-ended question: “What Is Your Dream Machine?”. What happens next is magic! Yet again, the children have invented a myriad of Dream Machines! It is appealing to see so...
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...
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)...
World Teachers’ Day is held annually on October 5th to celebrate all teachers around the globe. It commemorates the anniversary of the adoption of the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers. We have the exclusive privilege of working with amazing teachers every day. We truly see the impact educators are having around 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...
MyMachine Norway is teasing the public out in the open. Showing off Dream Machines like The Hypnosis Machine, the Party Machine and the Stand-Up Machine at this year’s Research Square in Kristiansand. These Dream Machines continue to create joy and, hopefully, the urge to create. We are excited about the new MyMachine Cycle that is...
A couple of weeks after the new school year has started in schools in Belgium, is the perfect time for the new MyMachine Flandres & Brussels cycle to kick off. Here are some pictures of the first primary school this year to host university students in their class. These Digital Arts & Entertainment students from...
We love this article written by the Mexican newspaper El Diario. MyMachine Mexico will very soon be finishing its very first cycle! This article sheds some light on it: the number of students participating, the Dream Machines being built, and some beautiful quotes like this one from Sofia Espinoza: “A child’s mind is super creative,...
TheMayor.EU – the European Portal for Cities and Citizens- aims to enhance the understanding and cohesion between the citizens of the European Union, the local authorities and EU institutions. Their goal is to inform about good practices on a local, regional and European Union level, by honouring the work of local authorities. In 2021 TheMayor.EU...
Marión (Mexico) invented her Dream Machine (called Obvie) in the framework of our global MyMachine DreamsDrop Campaign 2022. This runs outside of the scope of our regular MyMachine Chapters across the world. Our annual MyMachine DreamsDrop Campaign allows us to engage with schools mainly outside of the geography of our existing Chapters. This campaign was...
Creativity going global! In February we launched our MyMachine DreamsDrop Campaign 2022 to Primary School Teachers around the globe. Students in primary classes from different countries on 3 continents uploaded their dream machine! We selected ideas from 3 continents and University students at the School of Industrial Product Design at Howest University of Applied Sciences...
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...
Exciting times in Barcelona! The university students have finished creating the concepts for the Dream Machines invented by Primary School Students. That means the production of the Working Prototypes has started! MyMachine Catalonia (Spain) created these wonderful 4 videos showing the progress made by the Vocational/Technical Secondary School Students who are using their talents and...
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...
On June 23 and 24, nine dream machines were on display in Technopolis, Mechelen. From the lubricating machine to the mental aid machine: each one sprung from the imagination of primary school students and was brought to life by college students and technical/vocational secondary students. By joining forces, they created the MyMachine Expo 2021-2022. Some...
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...
Belgian RTBF made a wonderful documentary on MyMachine Liège! They have documented the MyMachine process, from the viewpoint of the participating Primary School Students. Images show what happened in the primary class, at the university, and at the vocational/technical secondary schools. At the end of a MyMachine Cycle, the working prototypes are presented at the...
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...
It is with tremendous pleasure that we can announce that a contract was signed for a new MyMachine Chapter: MyMachine Kenya! Our partner is Stadi za Maisha Educational Trust in the capital Nairobi. This non-profit organisation focuses on gifted and talented education. They work in collaboration with local communities, schools and other local organizations in offering alternative education programs to...
Ever wondered how it feels to be a student or an educator involved in MyMachine? Here’s your chance of getting a taste of it! The Indiana Chapter of MyMachine USA has delivered the result of a full year’s creative co-creation: 4 Dream Machines have been invented, conceptualised and built! In this very first cycle, over...
Imagine sitting in the class, and the teacher is asking you a question, but you don’t feel like answering it. Now, we have the solution: this Dream Machine is called “Willy”. Push the button, and it randomly points to one of your peers in class who needs to answer the question in your place! In...
The Norwegian newspaper Fædrelandsvennen published the article “What is relevant education in 2075?” about the work of our team from MyMachine Norway, led by Idunn Sem at the University of Agder. This article honours MyMachine Norway for elevating essential skills for students. Recently, Norway ended up at the bottom of the Nordic countries in a...
Here’s a sneak peek into the concepts for Dream Machines invented by primary students in Barcelona! Check out these wonderful videos! They are made, to explain the concept to the primary students, by the university students from Elisava, Barcelona School of Design and Engineering involved in the first pilot of MyMachine Catalonia (Spain). It really...
“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...
Open Design Afrika’s CEO, Suné Stassen was featured as a keynote at Interaction Week 2022, hosted by IxDA (Interaction Design Association) in March this year. The theme of this event was “Design in Perilous Times. One year on. What have we learned?” Her powerful talk is a 1-hour documentary titled: “A Super Power to build a thriving future for...
Yesterday evening was the grand opening of Design Fest Gent. MyMachine Flanders & Brussels (Belgium) is proud to be part of the exhibition “Be Wild, Act & Change”! Design Fest Gent, a new biennial 10-day international festival that offers designers space to present their ground-breaking ideas. The festival demonstrates what design can (and indeed should)...
Today is the Annual Global MyMachine Day! And this is a special message to you, from a selection of students and MyMachine Coordinators from around the world: Every year on April 21, the UN celebrates World Creativity and Innovation Day to raise awareness about the role of innovation and creativity in each aspect of...
We are thrilled to see this much creativity flowing in Indiana! First, let’s talk numbers: some 980 students across 16 educational institutes are involved in the pilot cycle of the Indiana Chapter of MyMachine USA. The majority of those students are 4th grade primary school children inventing their dream machines; like the Peppermint Snowman, the...
With tremendous pleasure, we announce today that MyMachine is growing again! Welcome to MyMachine Kosovo! We are proud and thrilled to partner with IDEON Institute in Pristina. “Ideon” means “Ideation” in Albanian. This new non-profit focuses on implementing education innovation. Besim Mustafa, professor at the University of Pristina, entrepreneur, Director of the Vocational Education and...
myBOO continues to travel to Business-to-Business events. This week our lovely Evil-Ghost-Hunter proudly showed its powers to potential buyers at Maison & Objet in Paris. Maison & Objet is a decoration, design and lifestyle B2B community. It nurtures the relationship between 6,000 brands & designers, some 300,000 international buyers, 1,500 journalists and over 2...
Creative overload in Kortrijk (Belgium)! MyMachine Flanders & Brussels organised their 2nd Work-In-Progress Event this year: this time around for the participating schools in the Central and West part of Flanders. 150 students at the School of Industrial Product Design at Howest University of Applied Sciences elaborated concepts of Dream Machines invented by the...
“Ladies and gentlemen, please fasten your seatbelts as we are starting our descent to the MyMachine Norway exhibition in Kristiansand.” Nothing short of brilliant. MyMachine Norway has launched a MyMachine world premiere: a MyMachine exhibition at Kjevik International Airport in Kristiansand. This international airport serves Kristiansand Municipality in Agder county. Over 1 million passengers per...
In this year’s run of MyMachine Flanders&Brussels (Belgium, Europe), different participating university faculties have incorporated the MyMachine assignment at other moments in their curriculum. The students at the faculty of Industrial Product Design at Howest University of Applied Sciences are delivering a design sprint this week. One hundred fifty students are turning Dream Machines into...
The next phase of the MyMachine DreamsDrop Campaign 2022 has started today. Until last Friday, primary school teachers (from different countries worldwide) have joined with their class by uploading Dream Machine Ideas from their students. We selected some ideas. from different schools around the globe. And today, students of Industrial Product Design at Howest University...
🇺🇦 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...
What a delight! The MyMachine Catalonia (Spain) pilot cycle has kicked off! University students in the Barcelona area have entered Primary classes to pose the question “What Is Your Dream Machine?” (“Quina és la teva màquina de somni?”) Some 175 primary school children were invited to make a drawing of their Dream Machine. The university...
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...
MyMachine Norway offers us a Sneak Peek into the transition of the MyMachine Step 2 (university level) into Step 3 (high school level)! Here’s a meeting where university students explain the concept they made to their vocational/technical high school peers. They discuss the concept and, should it be necessary, improve the design to streamline the...
On Saturday November 20th, over 10,000 participants joined the China Education Innovation Conference in Beijing, China. This conference is organised by the China Education Innovation Institute, founded by the Beijing Normal University. Saku Tuominen, Co-Founder of HundrED (Finland), Deepak Ramola, Founder of Project Fuel (India), and MyMachine (我的机器) Co-Founder Piet Grymonprez (皮特·格利蒙佩为), were invited as international keynote...
Wow. The child-inventors participating in MyMachine Norway are testing early versions of their Dream Machines. This Work-In-Progress event at the university is the setup for testing the concepts made by the university students. The primary school children are here to test those concepts, from Dream Machines like the Teddy Bear Dispenser (bringing comfort), the Visionary...
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...
A Always-Together-Machine, a Music-Wall-On-The-School’s-Playground, a Comfort-Robot, and so many more ideas. We are always amazed by the inventor’s brain of children. University students joined the primary classes to get acquainted with their “customers” and with their customers’ desires. All Primary School Students start from a blank sheet of paper. We believe that creativity arises when...
We are very proud to share that MyMachine has been selected by the global education nonprofit HundrED, in its 5th Global Innovation Collection, HundrED 2022, highlighting the brightest innovations in education from around the world. The goal is to inspire a movement by helping pedagogically sound, ambitious innovations spread and adapt to multiple contexts across the world. HundrED...
HundrED.Org is a not-for-profit organization, which seeks and shares inspiring innovations in K12 education from around the world. Both in 2019 and 2020, MyMachine has been selected by the HundrED Global Academy for their Global Innovations Collection: an annual assessment of education innovations on their innovative approach, impact, and scalability. We have been taking a...
It is with tremendous pleasure that we announce today that MyMachine is growing again! Welcome to the Chihuahua Chapter of MyMachine Mexico! We are proud and thrilled to partner with Fundacion Paso Del Norte in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. Fundacion Paso Del Norte focuses on advancing partnerships and initiatives to improve the health and well-being of the...
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...
A true honour. FOLIO is an International Literature Festival in Obidos, Portugal. The 2021 edition had a dedicated Education track, curated by Ana Sofia Godinho. On the closing day, MyMachine Co-Founder Piet Grymonprez had the privilege to be on stage talking about MyMachine, its impact and goals worldwide, including in Portugal, thanks to the amazing...
In June, all involved students visited the MyMachine Liège exhibition (Belgium), showcasing the drawings, and of course the working prototypes of the elaborated dream machines. But what a thrill, as they were now able to visit the exhibition for a second time. This time round it was part of SAMS – Salon Des Métiers de...
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,...
October 15 of every year is celebrated as World Students’ Day in honour of former Indian president APJ Abdul Kalam, who was born on the same day in 1931. The day aims to acknowledge the efforts of Kalam towards education and students. Students is obviously the main reason why MyMachine exists. All of our efforts...
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...
World Teachers’ Day is held annually on 5 October to celebrate all teachers around the globe. It commemorates the anniversary of the adoption of the 1966 ILO/UNESCO Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers. In MyMachine, we have the exclusive privilege to work with amazing teachers every day. Wo do so in 2 ways: by establishing...
Thrilled to be part of a Conference touching the intersection of Non-Formal and Formal Education. MyMachine Co-Founder Piet Grymonprez joined a panel today with Roberto Vdovic (Croatia), Korado Korlević (Croatia), Alexandre Boutaud (France), and Casey Shea (USA) to a crowd of educators and education stakeholders in Croatia. The event was organised at the Nikola Tesla Museum by...
World Tourism Day, celebrated each year on 27 September, is the global observance day fostering awareness of tourism’s social, cultural, political and economic value and the contribution that the sector can make towards reaching the Sustainable Development Goals. We thought to dive into our World-Map of Dream Machine Ideas that resonate with this theme. And we have...
Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21 September. The UN General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, through observing 24 hours of non-violence and cease-fire. On this amazing day we thought to dive into our World-Map of Dream Machine Ideas that resonate with this...
Absolutely wonderful to see 100 child-inventors discover the working prototypes of their dream machines at the MyMachine Norway Exhibition 2021! Celebrating creativity. Celebrating creative confidence. The MyMachine Norway 2021 exposition of dream machines was the “please do touch”-exhibition to discover dream machines co-created by students in primary, secondary and higher education in Norway in the past...
If you are in or near Norway, we invite you to visit the MyMachine Norway 2021 exposition of dream machines! This “please do touch”-exhibition allows you to discover dream machines co-created by students in primary, secondary and higher education in Norway. You will be able to discover gems like a.o. the LOL-Surprise-Massage-Machine, the Stand-Up-The-Lux-Machine, The Toy Machine,...
We are proud to share that MyMachine is listed on Innovation World. Their mission is to Awaken, Inspire, Facilitate and Promote creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship in schools, businesses and individually for every person, of any age, background, ethnicity or economic status. American based Innovation World is operating worldwide, inspiring creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship in K-12...
EmJoy Education is a non-profit organization that connects teachers worldwide to help each other Embrace Joy in Education ! It was founded by Dimitra Spyratou (Greece), Dr. Kalypso Filippou (Cyprus), Andrea Magee (Northern Ireland) and Matina Kallivoka (Greece). They aim to empower the community of teachers and their feeling of belonging, while bringing them the support and inspiration...
MyMachine Norway is preparing the new 2021-2022 season. One of the elements in getting started is sending out this video to the university students that want to join the unique program. The video shows testimonies of MyMachine Norway alumni, students, educators, and business people. Soon we’ll be diving into new dream machine ideas from primary...
It is with tremendous pleasure that we announce today that MyMachine is growing again! Welcome to the Indiana Chapter of MyMachine USA! We are proud and thrilled to partner with the LLC – Maker Educator Collective in Bloomington, Indiana. The collective focuses on how students can build and maintain an interest in STEAM and how students learn...
The primary school of Warsage (Belgium) joined MyMachine Liège (Belgium) past school year with 2nd grade students. They have published their whole experience into this great webpage. It tells the story of how they lived through the adventure from ideation to the building of an actual working prototype with the help of older students. Thank...
Childhood Education International (CE International) is an international development organization focused on developing and amplifying solutions that lead to positive change in children’s learning and lives. CE International’s work began in 1892 with the effort to promote kindergarten education in the United States and internationally. Since the very beginning, they have been an international organization...
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...
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...
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...
What a marvellous day this was! MyMachine Liège (Belgium) just finished their very first cycle, building 6 dream machines, uniting over 160 students from many different schools in Liège. While co-creating their dream machines, all these students learned the power of creative and entrepreneurship. At the end of this cycle, the results -the original drawings,...
Creativity going global! In January we launched our MyMachine DreamsDrop Campaign 2021 to Primary School Teachers around the globe. Students from 21 countries (Morocco, South Africa, Kenya, Mozambique, India, Vietnam, Turkey, Armenia, Australia, New Zealand, Cyprus, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, Poland, Canada, Usa, Mexico, Ecuador, Bolivia) uploaded their dream machine! We picked 39 ideas (from all continents) and connected these to university students at the School of Industrial Product Design at Howest University...
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...
On Saturday 26 June, Open Design Afrika Family Makers Day, sponsored by the Western Cape Cultural Affairs and Sports and in partnership with the V&A Waterfront and Decorex, will host a series of live and online events. We are excited to announce that MyMachine South Africa will once again be part of this amazing initiative....
Today is World Oceans Day. We thought it might be insightful to take a look at our world-map of ideas to see if there are ideas related to our oceans. So far, young children in 15 countries have uploaded ideas related to this topic. Including the Underwater Garbage Machine, invented by Nina (6) in Canada,...
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...
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...
It is with tremendous pleasure that we announce today that MyMachine is growing again: welcome MyMachine Hrvatska (Croatia)! We are proud and thrilled to partner with the Institut Poduzetničkog Obrazovanja i Inovacija (IPOI) in Zagreb. IPOI is the Croatian Institute of Entrepreneurial Education and Innovation. The institute is founded to develop and strengthen skills and attitudes that enable...
Oh! The Wake-Me-Up-In-The-Morning-By-Tilting-My-Bed-Machine! This is one of the dream machines in the making in the framework of MyMachine Norway. How wonderful to see these inventors from the primary school, visiting the technical secondary school producing their working prototype. We believe to be really on to something here… by uniting 3D-Prints, laser cutting, welding and a...
It is with tremendous pleasure that we announce today that MyMachine is growing again: welcome MyMachine Catalonia! We are proud and thrilled to partner with Fundació Tr@ms in Mollet del Vallès, Barcelona! Fundació Tr@ms is a non-profit grouping together schools that set out to make innovation an element of each school’s identity. In total they...
Today we received a wonderful message from New York: Stephanie Mehta here. I’m the editor-in-chief of Fast Company, and I’m pleased to share that MyMachine DreamsDrop has been selected as part of our List of 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards. Congratulations! Every year, Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas Awards honor the businesses and organizations driving...
A Dance Machine. Improve my dancing machine. Table Dancer. Just Dance My Friend. A dancing machine that makes you happy. My Dance Machine. All of these are wonderful dream machine ideas invented by young children in South Africa, Slovakia, Belgium and Norway. Upon asking children what their dream machine is, it is clear that dancing...
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...
Today is World Book Day and marks 2 years since we launched this special book. We want to take this opportunity to thank all those amazing people that have contributed to our book What Is Your Dream Machine? How Children Change Education Worldwide. This book is available worldwide in your favourite online-store (from Amazon to...
Today is World Creativity and Innovation Day. Probably one of the most important topics in the world. We exist because of Creativity and take proud in the fact that our work has been selected for the Spotlight on Creativity by HundrED and the LEGO Foundation. All of us at MyMachine are so fortunate to celebrate...
About a year ago, MyMachine Co-Founder Piet Grymonprez was personally asked by Arianna Huffington if he wanted to write for Thrive Global. His latest article “Competition is old-school.-The challenges we face aren’t ones that can be ‘won’, and certainly not by individual efforts.” is published today. In his article, Piet makes a strong case on...
India currently houses the world’s third largest startup ecosystem. The Indian Start-up Ecosystem has witnessed 10 unicorns in just 4 months. In last 7 days we have seen 6 start-ups becoming the unicorns. It was such an honour for our Co-Founder & Managing Director Piet Grymonprez to be part of this Round Table in Mumbai...
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:...
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!
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...
March 20th is the United Nations International Day of Happiness. On this day we want to encourage you to explore, enrich, and pursue your unique paths to happiness. The Clubhouse event: We are honoured to be part of this inclusive, holistic, and heartwarming #HappinessDay Celebration: A Million Dreams. This 24 hour-long Global togetherness is to celebrate, explore...
Creativity going global. We are thrilled to share that our DreamsDrop Campaign 2021 has given over 500 children the opportunity to invent and upload their dream machine drawings to our world-map of ideas. Children from all continents have joined and they are from 21 countries: Morocco, South Africa, Kenya, Mozambique India, Vietnam, Turkey, Armenia Australia, New Zealand Cyprus, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, Poland Canada, Usa, Mexico, Ecuador, Bolivia. Those...
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...
Students in technical secondary schools in Norway are building the working prototypes of the dream machines. And they are doing a fabulous job. Take a look at this example: the Surprise Massage Machine: Look at how they are testing the design principle: It’s not finished yet, but it already looks amazing. We are pretty...
EmJoy is a non-profit organization which aims to connect teachers and help each other Embrace Joy in Education. Their important work highlights that teaching can and should be a joyful experience for the students and for the teachers. We are honoured that Emjoy reached out to MyMachine to talk about how MyMachine contributes in embracing...
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...
We are excited to be a part of Imagine if… a celebration inspired by Sir Ken Robinson, from March 1st – 4th, 2021. Our Co-Founder & Managing Director Piet Grymonprez will be part of the official March 4th program, in collaboration with HundrED, Alex Bell (UK Country Lead HundrED) and Jigyasa Labroo, Co-Founder & CEO...
Meanwhile in MyMachine Norway: students in technical secondary school are testing the main design-principle of the dream machines. Here’s two wonderful examples: the Pillow-War-Machine: and the Secret-Massage-Machine:
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...
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...
We are proud to announce that we will be featured at the official first (of what will be an annual) tribute event for Sir Ken Robinson on March 4th, hosted by Nevergrey (founded by his daughter Kate Robinson). Kate shared that she was sitting next to her father when he died, promising him to dedicate...
Today is 11 February, The International Day of Women and Girls in Science. MyMachine is committed to make an impact since a child’s early years. Our open-ended approach has proven to be as successful to girls and women as to boys and men. We are proud of all women and girls who have teamed up...
MyMachine Co-Founder Piet Grymonprez was asked to participate in the opening panel of Burning Questions in Finland. Burning Questions is a Oulu University student-led global event. This year’s theme of the event is “Accessibility: Building Education Towards a Sustainable World”. Accessibility in education is a multifaceted issue. Dr. Barbara Stauber and Dr. Marcelo Parreira do Amaral...
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...
In South Africa children from different primary schools have invented their dream machines. These have been elaborated within the MyMachine South Africa context. The fabulous results were first shown in October at the iconic V&A Waterfront in Cape Town within the framework of the Open Design Afrika festival 2020. And now, the exhibition has moved...
University students Ruben and Charles presenting the status of their work within the framework of MyMachine Flanders and Brussels (Belgium). They made this short video to be shown to the child-inventors in the primary classroom. In this video Ruben and Charles explain the status of the concept they are working on, based upon the invention...
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!
MyMachine South Africa held their part 1 of the 2020 exhibition in Cape Town in the framework of the Open Design Afrika 2020 Festival. Here is a beautiful video about it: And as a bonus, here’s a engaging behind the scenes video, featuring a.o. Jeremy Maarman, MyMachine South Africa Coordinator. There is also Chimell Fortuin...
Difference Making at the Heart of Learning is the latest book by Tom Vander Ark and Emily Liebtag. This book features MyMachine and at the special Corwin launch event, Tom and Emily have highlighted MyMachine (as the only non-USA organisation). The book brings a sharp analysis on the role of education for the 21st century....
MyMachine South Africa is proud to present the dream machines being built in 2020 through the MyMachine methodology. The location being the iconic V&A Waterfront in Cape Town. At the last day of the Open Design Afrika festival, MyMachine South Africa showed dream machines like the Pizza Machine, the Stingray or the Clean The Umbrella...
At the final day of the HundrED Global Innovation Summit 2020, Saku Tuominen, announced live from Helsinki, Finland, that the Award for HundrED Innovator of The Year goes to Piet Grymonprez, Co-Founder and Managing Director of the MyMachine Global Foundation. This is how HundrED announced the award: “At last weeks HundrED Global Innovation Summit 2020, we announced...
Last night, we were honoured, together with so many people around the world, to join the HundrED tribute to Sir Ken Robinson. We were deeply touched by the words of Kate Robinson, remembering her father, while giving so many of us the extra push to keep doing what we do, to make education a better...
We are very proud to share that MyMachine has been selected by HundrED and the LEGO Foundation for their Global Spotlight on Creativity. Chris Petrie, Director Research at HundrED: “there was quite a lengthy selection process from the +250 innovations that were considered. This involved reviews from 40 HundrED Academy Members (educators, leaders, academics from all over the...
We are very proud to share that MyMachine has been selected by the global education nonprofit HundrED, in its 4th Global Innovation Collection, HundrED 2021, highlighting the brightest innovations in education from around the world. MyMachine was evaluated on the selection criteria of impact and scalability. Over 5000 innovations were considered for education nonprofit HundrED’s 4th annual...
Last week, creativity was booming again in Belgium. University students went into the primary classrooms to connect with their ‘customers’. And to find out what dream machines they invent and why they specifically invent this one. This time round, more than 100 primary schools across the Flanders and Brussels region of Belgium, participated with their...
The HundrED Innovation Summit 2020 is a three-day event that brings together thousands of education stakeholders from around the world. Since 2017, the overarching goal of the HundrED Innovation Summit has been to celebrate the selected hundred innovators on a global stage. The aim of this year’s Summit is to unite a community and create space...
We are extremely proud to invite you to the MyMachine South Africa exhibition on October 31st. The exhibition will showcase the dream machines invented by primary school children in South Africa and elaborated in the framework of MyMachine South Africa. The exhibition is a part of the Open Design Afrika festival that takes place October...
The first 4 primary schools in Liège (Belgium) have entered the MyMachine Liège stage! University students of the Master in Industrial Engineering entered the primary classrooms to invite the children to invent their dream machine. This Thursday additional primary school classes will be visited to start the ideation. We can’t wait to hear about the first...
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...
The city of Kortrijk (Belgium) has a new beautiful shopwindow free of evil ghosts! myBOO is shining in this Korner-shopwindow right in the city center of Kortrijk. Korner is a business incubator antenna that belongs to Hangar-K, the new and huge business incubator in town. The shopwindow is designed by Atelier Pierre Junior in collaboration...
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 are extremely honoured to announce that Suné Stassen, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Open Design Afrika has asked MyMachine to make a contribution to the 2020 edition of the Open Design Afrika Festival (27-31 October). The festival programme is curated (by experts from South Afrika, Morocco, Ghana, Germany, France, Finland China and USA) to...
Fablab Croatia, founded by Roberto Vdovic, is hosting its annual STEAM Week online this year. This event is targeting educators in Hrvatska to inform, demonstrate, and practice new ways of educating students in schools. Fablab Croatia has engaged 20 keynotes from Austria, Belgium, China, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the USA. These keynotes will share their...
Warning: creative overdose in Norway right now! We are thrilled to see MyMachine Norway kick-off the new MyMachine season. University students from Agder University have entered the primary classrooms of different schools like the Øvre Slettheia skole, Tordenskjoldsgate skole and Steinerskolen. The primary school children where asked to invent and to make a drawing of their...
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...
Last week we reported on the MyMachine Norway 2020 exhibition. Today we can share this video about it: marvellous ideas turned into brilliant, beautifully crafted working prototypes! Discover the the massage-machine, the problem-solver, the dance-machine, the all-is-possible machine and Robbe (the machine buddy who can suggest things to do when you are bored). Along the...
How marvellous to see this exhibition in Norway! What should have happened in March, luckily took place now: the final exhibition of dream machines invented and elaborated during school year 2019-2020. The participating primary school children could finally discover the dream machines they have been invented and elaborated, working together with university students and technical...
myBOO is getting a bigger sibling! Almost one year ago, we were proud to announce our very first real-life product: myBOO. The marvellous ghost-hunter that chases evil ghosts from you bedroom, leaving you safe to fall asleep. myBOO has already captured the heart of many children around the world. Today we are extremely proud to...
In the framework of the strategic partnership between the UNESCO Futures of Education Taskforce and HundrED, both partners are looking to crowdsource ideas and opinions on the future of education as part of their comprehensive report launching next year. The UNESCO Futures of Education Taskforce works under the leadership of the President of Ethiopia, Her...
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...
Walking to school while sowing flowers! This fabulous dream machine idea was invented by second grade primary school students at the Broebelschool in Oudenaarde (Belgium). The sowing machine is attached to your leg and is spreading the seeds while you walk. The design was done by Lorien Duchamps, Industrial Product Design student at Howest University and the...
The 5th grade primary school students at the Stedelijke Basisschool Zuid in Harelbeke (Belgium) invented a machine to create their own teddy bears. That is because they can’t find the ones they love in existing shops and moreover they dreamed of unique ones. Tijn Veraghert Industrial Product Design student at Howest University (Kortrijk, Belgium) created in collaboration...
The “Zoekinator” (“Searchinator”): a marvel invented by children with autism at the primary school BuBaO Sint-Idesbald (Belgium). University College students Ine Cappon, Ellen Knockaert and Lotte Vaernewyck, third year occupational therapy students at Howest made the design and made the machine in collaboration with the observation year of Secondary School Sint-Idesbald. The child-inventors received and...
From now on, the children at the primary school De Boomhut in Sint-Andries (Belgium) have become “Plastic Eaters”. They welcomed their real working dream machine to school today. The Plastic Eater includes a luminous backpack and all necessary tools to collect litter. With the counter and app, they can keep track of how much waste...
Inter-generational learning is one of the beautiful tags of MyMachine. We invite you to join these primary school children in Norway as they visit the technical/vocational secondary school to learn about the production of the working prototype of their dream machine. And there’s some pretty amazing almost finished prototypes! We can’t wait to see the...
MyMachine is active in different countries around the world. Our partners are doing all they can to navigate MyMachine through the Covid-19 measurements from the different governments in the different countries. As always, we put the students first. This has been one of our key drivers from our very first day. This has not changed...
It is with tremendous pleasure that we can share that a new MyMachine Chapter will start: MyMachine Liège. Liège is a part of the French speaking part of Belgium (La Wallonie; The Walloon Region), to the east of the country, bordering with The Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg. We have signed a contract with Basse-Meuse Développement,...
MyMachine has been selected as one of the 15 best education innovation organisations for the WISE 2020 awards because of its impactful and innovative approach to education. MyMachine was selected among 625 organisations worldwide evaluated according to strict criteria. These 15 organisations come from 10 countries and were selected by a pre-Jury of international experts....
The prestigious Katerva Awards -referred to by Reuters as ‘the Nobel Prize for Sustainability’- are the pinnacle of global sustainability recognition. Through them, “the best ideas on the planet are identified, refined and accelerated toward impact at a global level”. San Diego (USA) based Katerva (Latin for “crowd”) works with 2.500 global spotters that have...
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!
Health officials are currently taking steps to prevent the introduction and spread of Covid-19 (Coronavirus) into communities across the world. The pandemic situation is affecting the lives of many students, families & communities. Schools around the world are doing their best for students by using new and existing online technologies. In these challenging times, tools, resources...
MyMachine DreamsDrop is a worldmap that invites anybody to upload their dream machine idea. Once a year we will pick some of the ideas and bring them to life with educational partners. We have just done this for the first time with participating schools from Mexico, Ecuador, Belgium, South Africa, Mozambique and India. The Escola...
As the MyMachine South Africa 2019-2020 Exhibition is getting closer, the production of working prototypes is going strong. We can’t wait to see the results. Please join us in Piketberg on Tuesday 24 March for the MyMachine South Africa 2019-2020 Exhibition.
University of Cape Town (UCT) civil engineering students discussing the production details with professional engineers at Retief Krige Industrial Designers (Rkid), an Industrial Design company in Stellenbosch. The meeting allowed them to put some final touches to the designs. We can’t wait to see the working prototypes being presented at the MyMachine South Africa Expo on 24 March.
Inventing dream machines in Cromati Combined School in Komatipoort, South Africa: lot’s of beautiful drawings! Thank you Miss Rita and her 3rd grade class students to take part in this MyMachine DreamsDrop session by MyMachine South Africa!
Taking classes outside! Happy faces in ‘Grade 4’ (Fourth Grade) classroom of teacher Anrie in Komatipoort Academy! On behalf of MyMachine South Africa, 2 professors at Howest University of Applied Sciences (Belgium), Kelly Schedin and Mathieu Loosvelt, went into the primary classroom today. The young students were asked to invent their dream machine and make...
LIEF School in Villahermosa (Tabasco) in Mexico joined our pilot run of MyMachine DreamsDrop. The children invented their dream machine and product design students at the School of Industrial Product Design at Howest University of Applied Sciences created a proof of concept for it. All the inventors received a personalised MyMachine diploma and posters of...
We are thrilled to announce that our Book What Is Your Dream Machine? How Children Change Education Worldwide will be launched in South Africa! This book launch is in collaboration with our esteemed MyMachine South Africa partner Jeremy Maarman, Co-Founder and Director of The Initiative for Community Advancement and MyMachine South Africa coordinator. We are...
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!
What if young learners could be inspired to shoulder 100% of the responsibility for their own learning? How can schools and classrooms be designed to foster self-directed learning? What are the key motivating factors for self-directed learning? What are high-quality examples of self-directed learning and how can they scale? HundrED, Transcend,...
STEP 1: MEXICO The primary school class at LIEF School in Villahermosa Mexico has invented this Dream Machine (and uploaded it to our worldmap of dream machine ideas): when you recycle plastic bottles, you receive Lego*-blocks in return. Here’s the class making drawings of their invented dream machines: This is the original drawing for Doctor...
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...
myBOO, the first real-life product of MyMachine, is featured at the B2B event Prototyping 2020 & MNE in Belgium (5&6 February 2020). myBOO -the result of a professional, fun and respectful collaboration between the MyMachine Global Foundation and Atelier Pierre (by Vanhalst NV)- is presented alongside its predecessor (Spocker) from MyMachine. This fair is specialised...
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...
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...
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...
The Agder Summit 2020 (Agdermøtet 2020) is the region’s joint celebration of Aust- and Vest-Agder becoming new Agder. 300 selected guests were invited to participate and to help create the best possible foundation for a larger and stronger region. The summit was held on 20 January 2020 and continued in a party dinner. On Tuesday,...
The University of Agder in Norway (Kristiansand) is from the very start of MyMachine Norway the leading partner of the consortium running MyMachine in Norway. Marit Wergeland Yates is dean of the Faculty of the Arts. This faculty is leading partner within the university for MyMachine Norway. The Faculty has 3 institutes: Institute for rhythmic...
A worldwide call to primary education schools to come up with dream machine ideas. Children from all over the world have responded and dropped their dream machine idea on the world map of MyMachine DreamsDrop. After a selection of all ideas, today, at the request of MyMachine, 100 higher education students Industrial Product Design at...
We wish you a happy 2020! Full of empathy, creativity and love. Wishing you good health and let’s continue to take care of each other.
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:...
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...
Our book What Is Your Dream Machine? How Children Change Education Worldwide is now also on sale in bookshops across Belgium. Standaard Boekhandel is the biggest bookshop-company with 183 shops across the country. We are proud that this market-leader has shown interest in our book and has decided to distribute it though their shops in...
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 Norway has entered into agreements with 2 companies Glencore Nikkelverk and Agder Energi. The agreements worth NOK 900,000 mean that the two cornerstone companies support MyMachine, which in Norway is managed by the Center for Young Art and Culture at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Agder. This is very good for both...
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
After getting lots of good and useful feedback from the primary schools at the Work-In-Progress event on mockups of the Dream Machines, it was time to further develop the dream machine concepts with the skilled builders: the professional secondary students at Tangen and Kvadraturen Skole high schools. What is possible within the time-constraints, resources, expertise,...
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...
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:
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!
When the university students walk away from the ideation session in the primary classroom, they start the endeavour of translating what “the client” wants into a design -taking into account the available production facilities (= the participating technical secondary schools). It happens with constant feedback-loops to the primary school children. After brainstorms on possible concepts,...
We are very proud to share that MyMachine has been selected by the global education nonprofit HundrED, in its third global innovation collection, HundrED 2020, highlighting the brightest innovations in education from around the world. MyMachine was evaluated on the selection criteria of impact and scalability, and was reviewed by teachers, students, leaders, innovators and...
In MyMachine Flanders & Brussels (Belgium) special education primary schools are yet again involved. This is a great opportunity to work together with Occupational Therapy students at Howest University of Applied Sciences. Last week the university students started working as designers with primary school students with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and/or with behavioural and emotional...
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...
Do you have an idea for a Dream Machine? Want to see it built? Then upload your idea before October 15th! We want to pick an idea from each continent and bring it to life by University Students from the School of Industrial Product Design at HOWEST University of Applied Sciences in Belgium. 80 Industrial Product...
Today marks a very special day in the history of MyMachine. myBOO -our very first real life product- is dropping in shops across Belgium. The first shops to have them are Standaard Boekhandel/Club. Founded in 1919 this company has 183 shops across the country. myBOOs are dropping in all 183 stores this week. myBOO is also...
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! New Dream Machine Ideas have been created in MyMachine Flanders & Brussels (Belgium)! From the city of Bruges (West) to the city of Maaseik (East) primary schools have been exposed to an extreme high dose of creativity. Thanks to the expert guiding of higher education students from Howest University of Applied Sciences and PXL...
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...
Yesterday the university students participating in MyMachine South Africa went to the primary schools for the ideation of dream machines. The question “What Is Your Dream Machine?” unlocked the creativity and imagination of children of two Grade 1 classes and sparked the creation of 53 Dream Machine Ideas. Engineering students from University of Cape Town...
Yes! It’s that marvellous time of the year again in MyMachine Norway! 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...
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...
Today Erica Elk from Cape Town presented MyMachine South Africa at the UNESCO Creative Cities Conference in Torino, Italy. The UNESCO Creative Cities Network is launched in 2004 to promote cooperation among cities which recognized creativity as a major factor in their urban development. As of 2017, there are 180 cities from 72 countries in...
MyMachine kick-off for educators from primary and secondary education and the higher education students: it’s all about planning, to-do lists, getting to know each other. But most of all: learning to see MyMachine through the eyes of the primary school children. Which means: starting from a blank sheet of paper: doing something that no-one has done...
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...
It’s something completely new. We are piloting our brand new MyMachine DreamsDrop. And we are inviting every primary classroom around the world to join! Joining is really easy: this is how it works: Have the children in the primary classroom invent and draw their Dream Machine(s) Upload these to our World Map of ideas before 15...
From the very start of MyMachine, we keep on emphasising that MyMachine is all about the process: the possibility for young students to discover what it takes to bring an idea to life, while learning in an open education context to be creative, to co-create, to respect each other’s talents, to be entrepreneurial, to discover...
What Is Your Dream Machine? How Children Change Education Worldwide was launched a couple of weeks ago. Today we are proud to announce that the book is now being added to an additional platform: it is live in the Apple iBooks Store. Purchase your e-book copy in the Apple iBooks Store here: Apple iBooks Store. Click...
Our partner The New York Academy of Sciences has developed a 10-week online course called STEM Education in the 21st Century. The course supports K–12 STEM educators through the process of developing an instructional unit aligned to the Academy’s STEM Education Framework. Participants will explore the research behind the framework and apply it to create a unit of study...
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...
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...
Wednesday June 26th 2019 at 18:30h something beautiful came to be: An Evening With MyMachine. A seated-dinner event that marked 3 world premieres: the launch of the book What Is Your Dream Machine? How Children Change Education Worldwide the announcement of myBOO: the very first real-life MyMachine product to be launched soon the launch of...
Tuesday June 25th was MyMachine Flanders and Brussels VIP day: all participating students from elementary schools and university students from Howest University of Applied Sciences and PXL University of Applied Sciences gathered at Belvue Museum downtown Brussels, for a whole day of discovering the working prototypes. Here’s already a short video giving an impression on...
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...
On Tuesday June 25th, all participating schools from Flanders and Brussels will show up at 10:30am in downtown Brussels. All working prototypes will be on display to be admired and tested! The MyMachine Flanders & Brussels 2019 Exhibition will take place at Belvue Museum, next to the royal palace. At the occasion of their visit...
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...
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...
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...
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...
GettingSmart, leading platform on innovation in education in the USA, has identified 11 programs and community organisations “helping youth make a difference”. We are very honoured to be on that list! GettingSmart: “Helping young people identify and make their unique contribution is motivating and great preparation for the innovation economy–and they’ll inherit a world that...
Amy Kamarainen, Christina Smiraglia and Edward P. Clapp, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University: “Students in MyMachine learn that they can contribute to society, rather than just be a consumer of society. But ultimately what strikes us most about MyMachine is its ability to cultivate wonder, joy and a sense of community accross school populations − and even...
Magali Veramme, alumna MyMachine: “In retrospect, I now refer to my first job as MyMachine Extra-Large: I need to listen to a strict, very demanding customer and make it happen, despite budget limitations and deadlines. Yes, exactly like MyMachine!”. Read the full story in our brand new book: What Is Your Dream Machine? How Children...
Hank Nourse, Senior Vice President & Chief Learning Officer at The New York Academy of Sciences, member of IBE-UNESCO’s technical working group on Future Competencies and the Future of Curriculum: “By engaging children’s imaginations and encouraging all members of the education community to share in their innocence, curiosity, and capacity to dream, MyMachine has the...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Kristiansand, home to the MyMachine Norway HQ, is opening the 2019 MyMachine exhibition season today! This day marks the end of an intense collaboration of primary, secondary and higher education. And the results were astonishing! The exhibition is at display at the Kristiansand Library in downtown Kristiansand. The participating primary schools visited one by one the...
Last Wednesday evening we were honoured to be invited at the Vlerick Business School Brussels Campus. Vlerick Business School is an international business school welcoming MBA and Masters students from 50 countries onto their world-class programmes in Brussels, Ghent, Leuven and Beijing. The school has 22,000 alumni active in businesses in more than 100 countries....
In this year’s MyMachine Belgium edition, the Work-In-Progress event was a double event: one in the city of Hasselt (at PXL University of Applied Sciences) and one in the city of Kortrijk (at HOWEST University of Applied Sciences) (located 200km from each other). The event delivers the Primary School children their last opportunity to give...
MyMachine Norway invites you to their 2019 Exhibition opening on Tuesday March 19th in Kristiansand. This is the glorious moment where all students, teachers and professors from primary, secondary and higher education that were involved in MyMachine get together to discover all working prototypes. Of course the students know the one they invented, conceptualised and...
Just like last week in the city of Hasselt, MyMachine Flanders & Brussels (Belgium) has organised a second work-in-progress event, this time in Kortrijk. More then 200 students from primary and secondary and higher education came together to experiment, learn from each other and to inspire each other. The higher education students from Howest University...
Young inventors explore the scientific principles behind their dream machines: producing electricity with fruit from the ‘dream tree’ so they can activate lights in the tree. Or making fake wounds with bioplastics, which brings the perfect excuse the bring on the ‘nursing machine’. All of this was made possible by the students from PXL University in...
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...
MyMachine Belgium is impressed to see how this student team from the School of Digital Arts & Entertainment at Howest University, succeeded to engage the primary students from GO! Basisschool Kroonloon in Ostend, in their game developing platform. Not only by developing a game based on their ideas but by involving them in the development phases,...
Great example of MyMachine Norway on how STEP 3 looks like. Technical secondary school students at Treteknikk in Tangen discuss the production options for this dream machine. They concluded that it is difficult to build an entire machine in wood. In particular, the launch mechanism has proven to be difficult to construct in wood within...
Maja is the annual magazine published by The Young Academy. The most recent edition (number 5) runs an article on MyMachine, expressing the need for nurturing creativity and a ‘we can do that’ approach with the youth in Belgium. The Young Academy, part of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences & Arts, is...
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...
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...
Here’s an article of Getting Smart (leading voice in education in the USA) with 50 resources for Makers and Creative Classrooms. Getting Smart expresses their constant look for new inexpensive (or better yet, free) resources that can introduce more students to STEM and maker education. We’re proud that Getting Smart is mentioning that “there are a...
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.
Always nice to discover how our story travels the planet. This is, to our knowledge, the first article on MyMachine featured in Indonesian media. According to Crunchbase, Yekopo is known as online humor media that provides credible information, inspiration, and fun content for Indonesian young generation. Read the article here: Cara untuk Membantu Mewujudkan Impian Si...
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...
Today is what America calls #GivingTuesday (November 27th). American friends of MyMachine can make a tax-deductible holiday gift to the American Friends of MyMachine Fund. Your support is a general grant to the not-for-profit MyMachine Global Foundation. Read here how any contribution makes a difference! Today marks a good moment to – again – sincerely thank our...
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...
The international ProtoTyping trade fair is designed for everyone in the field of product development. The focus is on the whole design process, from the original idea through to setting up a business model and actual production in a pilot run or small series. You will find companies and research centres here with the technologies, materials, tools &...
What a day! What a party! All the elementary school classes that are involved in MyMachine Norway this year, have visited the university! This Work-In-Progress event is the moment where the elementary school inventors can test out early mock ups of the dream machines. Engineering students received a lot of useful feedback to improve the...
College Students learn a lot in MyMachine. Yes, there’s a lot to learn about being creative (again), about deadlines, about respecting each other’s talents, about budget restraints. Another aspect of bringing an idea to life, is to know what production facility you can work with. That’s why the university students who are translating the initial...
MyMachine Norway kicked of their 2018-2019 season with five “What is Your Dream Machine?”-sessions across 3 elementary schools: Kringsjå skole, Kristiansand International School and Karl Johan Minne Skole. To be able to witness the creative power of those young students is always a real honour. It were really very creative sessions. We can’t wait to...
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:
What would you think of a machine to invent new animal species? Or a machine that enables you to talk to your cuddles? Or would you prefer the me-doubler that would go to school in stead of you? Lot’s of brilliant ideas, yes every idea is brilliant, from the elementary school children in this classroom...
The London-based company THE PIE is a news and business analysis company for professionals in international education. The PIE Founder and Managing Director Amy Baker and MyMachine Co-Founder & Managing Director Piet Grymonprez met at Going Global in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) earlier this year. Now The PIE News has published the interview: you can find...
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,...
Belgian media company ZIGO interviewed one of our three co-founders at MyMachine. ZIGO is not just another media company. Its baseline is “Makes Optimism Easy” and brings the story of people (they call them pioneers) who do not accept the status quo and take positive action to better our society. It is therefore a great...
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....
The Belgian company Vanhalst, 2 Give & Enjoy, was founded in 1968 and celebrates 50 years of entrepreneurship. Vanhalst has grown from a pastry shop to a wholesale company and in more recent years the creation of the designlabel Atelier Pierre. Since 2002 Sophie and Frank, sister and brother, are leading the company and its...
Gettingsmart, the leading platform on education in USA, created a podcast on MyMachine. The podcast includes an interview by Tom Vander Ark with the 3 co-founders of MyMachine. The interview was done while Tom Vander Ark was in Kortrijk (Belgium) for the opening of the MyMachine Belgium 2018 exhibition. Click here to find the podcast...
Today marks another milestone in the history of MyMachine. We are very proud to share that Forbes has run an article on MyMachine. Forbes is a leading business magazine in the USA that every month reaches out to 115 million people in 73 countries. Tom Vander Ark, who was our keynote for the 2018 MyMachine...
This week MyMachine Belgium organised a conference on the Future of Learning. This conference was held alongside the opening of the MyMachine Belgium 2018 Exhibition. The conference was attended by leading voices in education, indust
