If you are in or near Óbidos (Portugal) today, then you are cordially invited! 10 Years of MyMachine Portugal! This incredible milestone will be celebrated at 5 PM (local time) at the MyMachine Portugal House. This former library is a permanent MyMachine exhibition space since November 2022, and hosts a myriad of activities on creativity...
At the end of the school year, the MyMachine Expo Ceremony is the time and place to celebrate the results of many months of co-creation, perseverance, and resilience. This year, MyMachine Slovakia made it into a triple event: on June 18 in Košice and on June 21st in Piešťany. In addition, an exclusive industry networking...
We bet you wonder how shoes can fly, or what a Fleip or Fact machine can look like? We have good news for you: you can visit the cultural school KNUDEN’s premises at Silokaia in Norway to see and test these amazing Dream Machines . There, you will be able to discover Flying Shoes, the...
The vibrant city of Liège (Belgium, Europe) provided the vibrant space for a vibrant celebration party of vibrant students, educators and sponsoring companies! Yes, that’s a lot of ‘vibrant’! Obviously, the child-inventors know the Dream Machine they’ve been working on with their team. But then they get to discover the work of all the other...
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...
Celebration should be an attitude. That’s exactly what happened last Friday when MyMachine Portugal launched its 2023 exhibition at the MyMachine House in Obidos. The medieval town of Obidos attracts 2 million visitors a year. Annually in October, they also host Folio, the biggest literary festival in Portugal. All of this combined is the extraordinary...
Celebrating months of hard work. The final exhibition of this year’s run in MyMachine Slovenia was just that! Preschool children and students of primary school Otlica, OŠ Danila Lokarja Ajdovščina (primary school Vrtovin, Skrilje and Vipavaski Cross), Otroški vrtec Ajdovščina enota ob Hublju , OŠ Dobravlje! (prš Lokavec) and a group of preschool children O.Š....
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...
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....
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
“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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:
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,...
Click here for the Dutch Documentary by Regional Television TV OOST: children/inventors from the Belgian elementary school discovering, at the technical high school, their working prototype: the Disease-Vacuum-Cleaner. This is one of the dream machines that will be on display at the Grand MyMachine Flanders Exhibition, opening June 18th in the City of Kortrijk. Join us...
