Young people’s dreams are hitting the news in Belgium! Different regional television broadcast companies have been covering the big reveals of several Dream Machines. These reveals take place at the primary school that invented them. The child inventors have been involved in the whole process from inception to the making of these working prototypes. But...
Celebrating your birthday at school will never be the same again! The Fantandem makes it even more fun! Ride the bike, and the sweets are thrown around for your friends to catch! This Dream Machine was invented by 2nd graders in Sint-Truiden, Belgium. Regional television TV Limburg joined us to document this big reveal: Next...
Turning all days of the week into Happy Days! That was the dream of Vicky’s class in primary school Spoor 9 & De Sassepoort in Gent (Belgium). Today was the big reveal of this Make-Me/Us-Happy machine. It’s a magical fitting room that allows two children to engage in interactive games to make them happy. The...
While Belgium is engulfed in a heatwave these days, playing in rainy weather sounds like a wonderful idea! But what should we do with those filthy, muddy, shoes when entering school? Primary school children at Groeicampus Lager in Genk came up with this clever solution: the ShoeWash. This Interactive-Shoe-Washing-Machine works on human power. It was...
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....
In the past few weeks, primary school students in Slovakia have been on discovery trips! They have been able to visit vocational/technical secondary schools to see what the production of the prototype looks like in real life. They were introduced to machine learning, for example, for the Pen-That-Can-Write-Homework. This was fun and sometimes disappointing –...
Creating a machine that allows you to fly is demanding. Creating a machine that allows you to fly safely is perhaps even more demanding. One of the participating primary school classes in Norway had a special day today. These 3rd graders went to the technical/vocational secondary school vg2 Treteknikk, to test whether the prototype of their...
Students in technical secondary schools in Norway are building the working prototypes of the dream machines. And they are doing a fabulous job. Take a look at this example: the Surprise Massage Machine: Look at how they are testing the design principle: It’s not finished yet, but it already looks amazing. We are pretty...
