Primary school teachers Polona Žorž, Tanja Maver Jamšek and Marija Slejko from the school in Vrtovin have made this wonderful video. They made it at the end of their participation in our annual MyMachine DreamsDrop Campaign, in which we offer the opportunity to primary school teachers worldwide to join with their students. This class invented...
Recently MyMachine Slovenia had the true pleasure of presenting the working prototypes of this year’s Dream Machines invented by children at the primary schools Col, Otlica, Draga Bajca Vipava (department at Goče) and Dobravlje Primary School (department at Vrtovin). A machine that waters flowers and makes a rainbow. A machine that helps children separate waste...
That wonderful moment when primary school children invent their very own dream machine. Look at the hard work going on at the British International School of Ljubljana in Slovenia:
This school participated 3 years ago in MyMachine Slovenija (Slovenia) and decided for themselves that they wanted to keep on improving the original working prototype: so, with their technical students they produced this new (highly improved) version and is now being fully tested by the original child-inventors: the remotely controlled dinosaur that picks up toys...
MyMachine Slovenia presented their Final Exhibition 2016 at the Rampa Lab in Ljubljana. This exhibition celebrates the conclusion of the MyMachine Slovenia 2015-2016 cycle. 9 working prototypes are on display. With an average (MyMachine Global) of 65 people directly involved, this means that these 9 elaborated dream machines, were built through a collaboration of more...
MyMachine Slovenia is proudly announcing their 2016 Grand Exhibition. The grand opening is on Thursday 16 June 2016. This is the day on which all children involved will be visiting the exhibition to test the elaborated working prototypes. This will be serious testing by the children, a lot of fun and loud. We’re very much...
Take a look at the wonderful dream machines being built by MyMachine Slovenia: 1. Plavac: This machine gives children vocal instructions that helps them to learn to swim. The dream machine will also play with them in the water. 2. Save-Driving-Machine: This dream machine is a driving assistent for adults and children in the car. It gives...
The ZOMBIE machine is the idea that the children in Slovenia and Belgium want to see realized as a working prototype. This machine can make real zombies that protect you and help you doing things at home (if you ask them friendly). Has this anything do to with the Halloween period? One thing’s for sure: they...
In preparation of the bi-annual Unesco Global General Assembly which is going to take place at the Unesco Global headquarters in Paris early November, Unesco Europe organized a Preparatory Meeting in Brussels last week. This preparatory meeting was focused on young people to give ideas and advice in preparation of the 9th Unesco Youth Forum,...
Today is a historic day for MyMachine. The first ever exhibition outside Belgium is a fact. MyMachine Slovenia just celebrated their Grand Opening at the MAO in Ljubljana. The expo tails the 2014-15 edition of MyMachine Slovenia. 150 Children from the participating schools in Slovenia, arrived at the MAO at 11 o’clock. At first they could tell...
“Does creativity evaporate when entering Elementary School?” is the title of this grand interview with Mihajela Crnko from MyMachine Slovenia, in the National Slovenian Newspaper Delo. This article is a great promotion for MyMachine Slovenia, two days before the opening of the first MyMachine Slovenia Exhibition at the Mao in Ljubljana. Join us at the Mao...
We are proud to share that MyMachine Slovenia has again been published in a Slovenian Newspaper, this time Primorski Val. As the first MyMachine Slovenia Cycle is reaching completion within 2 weeks, the press attention is focussing on the upcoming MyMachine Slovenia Exhibition. This Exhibition will showcase all creativity which has been taken place at the participating...
Slovenian national radio has hosted MyMachine Slovenia in a live radio show titled “A look into science”. The show has focused on creativity in education and mostly on the innovative dream machines invented by kids in Slovenia and in Belgium. The listeners had a chance to hear about the ideas being realized in Slovenia currently:...
Mihajela Crnko who’s running MyMachine Slovenia was invited at the Ministry of Education and Science, Canton Sarajevo, Bosnia-Hercegovina — in Sarajevo to present MyMachine Slovenia. This was the first presentation and exchange of good practices between Slovenia and Bosnia-Hercegovina on the topic of open learning environments, open educational resources and new education technologies. Read more on the website of MyMachine...
Mitja Jermol and Mihajela Crnko from MyMachine Slovenia have launched their own MyMachine website and we are very proud of this. It’s the first MyMachine website from outside of Belgium. You can now follow the development of the Sanjski Stroji (dream machines) from Slovenia here: www.mymachine.si
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...
MyMachine Slovenia is now running a MyMachine pilot in the city of Ljubljana, the capitol of Slovenia, and the city of Kranj. This pilot includes 2 machines that will be built with the participation of 3 schools. The Dream machines are invented by 39 pupils in the first grade class room of teacher Tjaša Pirc Pezdirc at the Primary School...
On 25 April 2014 MyMachine was invited to speak at the OCWC 2014 organized in Ljubljana, Slovenia. OCWC 2014 will feature the official launch of OpeningupSlovenia, a national research and innovation environment for Open Education. Recent years have witnessed the rapid development of digital distance learning tools such as Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Massive Open Online Courses...
MyMachine Foundation is proud to announce a cooperation with the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia. From the academic year 2014-2015 onwards three MyMachine runs will be organised in Slovenia. The agreement was signed at the Offices of the King Baudouin Foundation in Brussels. The Jožef Stefan Institute is the leading Slovenian scientific research institute, covering...
MyMachine is taking part in the international conference, organised by Vrtec Trnovo, on the role of kindergardens in creating an innovation ecosystem in society. Vrtc Trnovo acknowledge in MyMachine an innovative methodology to create cooperation between children, youngsters and grown-ups, in a project that stimulates creativity in education. The conference has a extraordinary (we like!)...
