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...
The whole point of MyMachine is to experience how challenging, but also wildly nice it is to create new solutions through interdisciplinary collaboration. Here’s an example from Norway. At Dahlske technical secondary school, students from Technology and Industry and students from Automation are joining forces to build the Stand-Up Machine. Mathea, Annika and Casper have made...
MyMachine Norway is preparing the new 2021-2022 season. One of the elements in getting started is sending out this video to the university students that want to join the unique program. The video shows testimonies of MyMachine Norway alumni, students, educators, and business people. Soon we’ll be diving into new dream machine ideas from primary...
The Agder Summit 2020 (Agdermøtet 2020) is the region’s joint celebration of Aust- and Vest-Agder becoming new Agder. 300 selected guests were invited to participate and to help create the best possible foundation for a larger and stronger region. The summit was held on 20 January 2020 and continued in a party dinner. On Tuesday,...
The University of Agder in Norway (Kristiansand) is from the very start of MyMachine Norway the leading partner of the consortium running MyMachine in Norway. Marit Wergeland Yates is dean of the Faculty of the Arts. This faculty is leading partner within the university for MyMachine Norway. The Faculty has 3 institutes: Institute for rhythmic...
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...
What a day! What a party! All the elementary school classes that are involved in MyMachine Norway this year, have visited the university! This Work-In-Progress event is the moment where the elementary school inventors can test out early mock ups of the dream machines. Engineering students received a lot of useful feedback to improve the...
