20 Nov202420th November 2024
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MyMachine Armenia: we have a lift-off!

MyMachine Armenia: we have a lift-off!

Writing history in Armenia! On November 9th, the first MyMachine Armenia cycle got off to a great start at the Dilijan Community Center. Students, members and professors of the Engineering Faculty from the American University, and a lot of young dreamers from Dilijan primary schools got together to start the ideation of Dream Machines! After...

19 Nov202419th November 2024
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Open Call to Elementary School Teachers Around The World

Open Call to Elementary School Teachers Around The World

A marvellous opportunity for the students in your class to invent their Dream Machine! And who knows, perhaps they’ll even get an elaborated Proof-Of-Concept. Are you a teacher in elementary/primary school and want to join? It’s easy: SELECTION OF IDEAS In February 2025, we will pick (from each continent, if possible) a limited amount of ideas....

01 Mar20241st March 2024
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When The Going Gets Fun, The Fun Get Going

When The Going Gets Fun, The Fun Get Going

From Kosice to Bratislava, Slovakia is engulfed in intergenerational design thinking! Dream Machine Inventors from primary schools are visiting the universities, giving feedback to the university students designing a concept for their Dream Machines. That feedback is brutally honest. In other words: the university students can learn a lot from these amazing, yet demanding customers!...

13 Feb20249th February 2024
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When your ‘brutally honest customer’ inspects your work

When your ‘brutally honest customer’ inspects your work

Last week, the primary school students of the 1st year of the Josefa de Óbidos Group of Schools, visited the University Superior School of Arts and Design of Caldas da Rainha, to approve the technical drawings of the Dream Machines. This is one of those critical moments in MyMachine. The designers/engineers (the university students) get...

01 Dec20231st December 2023
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Portugal Is Covered In New Ideas

Portugal Is Covered In New Ideas

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...

09 Mar202316th March 2023
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University Students in the USA getting final feedback from the Children

University Students in the USA getting final feedback from the Children

February 23rd was a big day for the 2nd grade of the Linton-Stockton School Corporation in Greene County, Indiana (USA)! It marked the big reveal for their Dream Machine prototypes! These elementary students have invented their Dream Machine. Indiana University Design students have translated that idea into a Concept. The university students gathered final feedback...

06 Mar202316th March 2023
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Work-In-Progress events in Slovakia (part 2)

Work-In-Progress events in Slovakia (part 2)

“This is an ideal school, I will enrol here to study”! “When I grow up, I’ll be an inventor”! Such words coming from fifth graders visiting the university, are a dream come true for us! When we create the right environment for students, they find opportunity and commitment. We are pleased by these sincere praises...