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...
What happens if you bring in 450 child-inventors into one room at HOWEST University of Applied Sciences in Kortrijk? The answer is: they become loud and enthusiastic feedback machines to the university students that are designing their inventions. Each year again, it’s so wonderful to see the university students getting hands-on honest feedback from the...
The MyMachine Belgium (Flanders) Exhibition on national television in a dedicated news show targeting youth (Dutch): http://www.ketnet.be/karrewiet/23-juni-2015-my-machine. This news item focusses on the visit to the exhibition of the elementary school that invented the game that has been developed in this MyMachine cycle.
We’re very happy to share some of the great media coverage both exhibitions benefitted from both in Slovenia as in Belgium. Here’s 2 examples from both countries: In Slovenia the MyMachine Exhibition got almost a complete page in the Delo (one of, if not the most important newspaper in Slovenia). You can see the picture...
Today was a magnificent day for MyMachine. MyMachine Belgium (Flanders) just celebrated their Grand Opening in Kortrijk. The expo tails the 2014-15 edition of MyMachine Belgium (Flanders). 450 Children from the participating schools in Belgium, arrived at 10 o’clock. They could discover all of the elaborated working prototypes and test them out ! The higher education students were there...
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...
MyMachine Flanders in Belgium, just launched their new call for participants 2015-2016. This call for participants aims at schools in Flanders and Brussels to participate at the MyMachine cycle 2015-2016 in Belgium. This new MyMachine cycle will start end of September 2015. If your school wants to apply, follow this link: http://mymachine.be/nieuws/gezocht-enthousiaste-scholen-voor-deelname-aan-mymachine-vlaanderen-2015-2016 We’re ready to...
In 6 weeks time, 6 MyMachine inventors from the past were in the national tv-show, in which the guests could vote if the invention was brilliant or not. Guess what? MyMachine got 6 times brilliant! Here’s a stop motion were you see Brecht presenting his Ball-Cather/Fetcher machine: StopMotion_Brecht And here are some behind-the-scenes-pictures: ...
Today, the children of the Ten Bunderen school visited the Howest – Digital Arts & Entertainment campus in Kortrijk. They discovered their own invented game, developed by Digital Arts & Entertainment students. Oh, no surprise there, they loved it!
MyMachine Belgium was having its Work-in-Progress Event yesterday. It made it to the National Television News in Belgium (Dutch) and the Regional Television News (Dutch). Take a look at this short documentary to capture the vibe NATIONAL VRT JOURNAAL: REGIONAL WTV-FOCUS:
Today, more than 400 children visited the Howest Campus in the city of Kortrijk, to discover and discuss the progress made by the Howest Industrial Product Design Students. It was fabulous.
The final countdown…with some help from the Slovenian MyMachine team. Tomorrow invasion of 400 children who come to see their dream machines, we’re ready!
MyMachine Belgium and MyMachine Slovenia are in Berlin (Germany) today at the 20th edition of the International Online Educa Conference, bringing new technology to the educational stage. More than 40 new machines were invented, this time by grown-ups from all over the world: ranging from a Tie-Shoe-Machine, the Pairing-Single-Socks-Machine, the Machine-That-Can-Sculpt-And-Cave-An-Image to the Machine-To-Make-Me-Younger, the...
