This is the closest you get to experiencing what the students in Mexico are experiencing while working on the MyMachine assignment! We invite you to watch this outstanding video made by our MyMachine Chihuahua (Mexico) team at Fundación Paso Del Norte in collaboration with Desafio. It tells the whole story of their latest MyMachine run...
The Battle Bot, Darth Vader Rugby, and Magic Booshelf! Grade 2 learners from Jan van Riebeeck Primary School have spoken. Or better yet: have invented and drawn their inventions. These design briefs have been given to 3rd year Industrial Design students at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) who designed these Dream Machines. And after an...
Meanwhile in South Africa! Children have been inventing their Dream Machines and university students at CPUT have immersed themselves in hard work to design them into Working Prototypes. In a little while we’ll be able to share more details about it all, but for now, we can enjoy these wonderful videos made by Storm Wilson,...
164 students co-creating Working Prototypes! That is exactly what has just happened in Mexico! Children in primary classes of Escuela primaria Solidaridad 2666, Escuela primaria República de Venezuela, Escuela Ford 180, and Instituto Kurowi invented over a hundred Dream Machines. A group of students from different engineering disciplines (Industrial Design, Mechatronics Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Biomedical...
The Battle Bot, Darth Vader Rugby, and Magic Booshelf! The primary school students participating in MyMachine South Africa, have spoken! These design briefs have been given to 3rd year Industrial Design students at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) who are now designing a concept. Some amazing Dream Machines were invented, like The Battle Bot,...
A lot happens when students from primary school visit their peers at the university. They are there to understand the context in which their designers —the university students— work, and how they are able to translate their Dream Machine idea into a Concept. But there’s also a lot more going on! According to research done...
Here are 10 of the 3,000 Dream Machine drawings made during the Óbidos Vila Natal Festival in December 2023. Óbidos is the city that hosts the MyMachine Portugal HQ and the unique MyMachine House. The end of year festival attracts thousands of visitors. A marvellous occasion to ask them to make a drawing of their...
MyMachine Mexico is on a roll. In this school year’s run, they have completed the construction of four Dream Machines. Here’s a fabulous video documentary showing us how it all started: Stay tuned for more updates.
It was an extraordinary day full of creativity and wonder. 130 child inventors had the opportunity to discover the scale models of the machines they imagined. These scale models are made by university students from HELMo – Gramme and HEPL – Haute Ecole de la Province de Liège. Watching the eyes of the ‘clients’ (the...
In the framework of MyMachine Slovakia, the end of November and the beginning of December are all about MyMachine meetings, where the first concepts for the new Dream Machines are being discussed. University students meet professionals of our industry partners Stredná odborná škola technická v Humennom, Nadácia Volkswagen Slovakia, Magna International, Duálna Akadémia, Deutsche Telekom...
Mining the unlimited creativity of young Portugal. These brilliant minds are not limited by their knowledge. Therefore, they are totally free of any constraints on their thinking and creativity. And they did come up with groundbreaking ideas! The ones we, adults, would probably boycott the moment they pop up. And that is precisely why MyMachine...
Established in 1970, the Korea Institute of Design Promotion (KIDP) is the only design body in Korea to plan and implement national design policies and strategies. Good Design Korea, hosted by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and organized by the Korea Institute of Design Promotion, is the highest honour for design and innovation...
Autumn’s finest moment in Norway! The Work-In-Progress event of MyMachine Norway. Over one hundred primary school children visited the university to test and evaluate the early prototypes made by arts and engineering students. This is the final step in the making of a concept of Dream Machines like the World-Changing-Lie-Detector, the Self-Driving-Fantasy-Transport-machine —which can prepare...
Children in primary classes throughout the country are inventing an unprecedented amount of Dream Machine ideas! University students enter primary classes to invite the children to invent their Dream Machines. Anything goes, as long as they really, really want it. And they want a lot! Some take the opportunity to invent something fun, others for...
MyMachine South Africa is leaning on the shoulders of a powerful collaboration of The Initiative Of Community Advancement (founded by Jeremy Maarman) and Open Design Afrika (founded by Suné Stassen). We’re proud to share that Suné is featured at ICAS, the International Conference on the Advancement of STEAM education (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics). Suné...
Dazzling news from the UK. MyMachine has been awarded Tech Education Initiative Of The Year by Corporate LiveWire’s Innovation And Excellence Awards! The Corporate LiveWire platform provides business professionals and individuals in the corporate sector with information on the latest news and developments from around the globe. The international judging panel scans the globe for...
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...
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)....
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...
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...
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...
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....
<< 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...
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...
