Higher Education Students go through an amazing hands-on experience of their future jobs:
– They learn to listen to their customer, in this case, the Primary School Child (a very demanding customer, by the way).
– They learn to use their own knowledge and know-how to translate the idea into a concept.
– They learn to take into account the production facility they can use, in this case, the participating Vocational/Technical Secondary Schools: they need to understand what production machines these schools have, and what complexity level the participating Technical/Vocational Secondary School Students can handle.

Here you can see (some of the participating) university students explain the different concepts they designed for the Dream Machine they work on. In the room are university professors, technical secondary educators, the MyMachine Wallonie team and other stakeholders like industry-sponsors. Together with the university students, they discuss all the pros and cons of each concept. And they conclude by selecting one of those concepts.

Now, the university students can elaborate the chosen concept, and prepare all the technical features for production.