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...
