MyMachine USA pulled off their 3rd successful MyMachine cycle! The first stateside chapter, MyMachine USA, is in its third year encouraging students across the United States to think creatively and develop solutions to challenges they face in everyday life. Elementary students invent their dream machine In the 2023-24 academic year, MyMachine USA partnered with two...
MyMachine USA pulled off their 2nd successful MyMachine cycle! It finished with a reveal to the 2nd graders at Linton-Stockton School Corporation in Greene County, Indiana, on May 18th. “We had better ideas working together as a group than if we would have done this all by ourselves”, says Jackson (7). Along with Susan Anderson, Paul...
The USA-based EdTech Awards recognizes people for outstanding contributions in transforming education through technology to enrich the lives of learners everywhere. Featuring edtech’s best and brightest, the annual program shines a spotlight on cool tools, inspiring leaders and innovative trendsetters across the K-12, Higher Education, and Skills and Workforce sectors. The EdTech Awards recognize people—and...
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...
“And the Oscar goes to…”. December 7th marked another excellent milestone for MyMachine as we received the Reimagine Education Presence Learning Silver Award! Considered ‘the Oscars’ of education, the Reimagine Education Awards is the largest global awards program for innovative pedagogies. The Awards, organised by the Wharton School and QS Quacquarelli Symonds, celebrate approaches that...
Ever wondered how it feels to be a student or an educator involved in MyMachine? Here’s your chance of getting a taste of it! The Indiana Chapter of MyMachine USA has delivered the result of a full year’s creative co-creation: 4 Dream Machines have been invented, conceptualised and built! In this very first cycle, over...
It is with tremendous pleasure that we announce today that MyMachine is growing again! Welcome to the Indiana Chapter of MyMachine USA! We are proud and thrilled to partner with the LLC – Maker Educator Collective in Bloomington, Indiana. The collective focuses on how students can build and maintain an interest in STEAM and how students learn...
Childhood Education International (CE International) is an international development organization focused on developing and amplifying solutions that lead to positive change in children’s learning and lives. CE International’s work began in 1892 with the effort to promote kindergarten education in the United States and internationally. Since the very beginning, they have been an international organization...
Creativity going global! In January we launched our MyMachine DreamsDrop Campaign 2021 to Primary School Teachers around the globe. Students from 21 countries (Morocco, South Africa, Kenya, Mozambique, India, Vietnam, Turkey, Armenia, Australia, New Zealand, Cyprus, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, Poland, Canada, Usa, Mexico, Ecuador, Bolivia) uploaded their dream machine! We picked 39 ideas (from all continents) and connected these to university students at the School of Industrial Product Design at Howest University...
The prestigious Katerva Awards -referred to by Reuters as ‘the Nobel Prize for Sustainability’- are the pinnacle of global sustainability recognition. Through them, “the best ideas on the planet are identified, refined and accelerated toward impact at a global level”. San Diego (USA) based Katerva (Latin for “crowd”) works with 2.500 global spotters that have...
What if young learners could be inspired to shoulder 100% of the responsibility for their own learning? How can schools and classrooms be designed to foster self-directed learning? What are the key motivating factors for self-directed learning? What are high-quality examples of self-directed learning and how can they scale? HundrED, Transcend,...
Our partner The New York Academy of Sciences has developed a 10-week online course called STEM Education in the 21st Century. The course supports K–12 STEM educators through the process of developing an instructional unit aligned to the Academy’s STEM Education Framework. Participants will explore the research behind the framework and apply it to create a unit of study...
GettingSmart, leading platform on innovation in education in the USA, has identified 11 programs and community organisations “helping youth make a difference”. We are very honoured to be on that list! GettingSmart: “Helping young people identify and make their unique contribution is motivating and great preparation for the innovation economy–and they’ll inherit a world that...
Hank Nourse, Senior Vice President & Chief Learning Officer at The New York Academy of Sciences, member of IBE-UNESCO’s technical working group on Future Competencies and the Future of Curriculum: “By engaging children’s imaginations and encouraging all members of the education community to share in their innocence, curiosity, and capacity to dream, MyMachine has the...
Agoria, the Technology Industry federation of Belgium, just returned from an economic mission to Silicon Valley. Agoria took along Belgian Factory of the Future companies to visit American Factory of the Future companies. The nature of the visit was to learn from each other on how to adapt their business to the 21st century needs...
Congratulations to MyMachine Oklahoma! We’re very proud for this important LERN Award in the category Programming. As this category recognizes courses, activities, programs or events that are creative & innovative, this award endorses the MyMachine methodology. As LERN is including more than 9,000 members from all 50 states, and 20 countries, serving industries including different kinds of...
MyMachine Oklahoma is finishing their very first cycle this week. Next Friday the working prototypes of these dream machines will be on display at their Grand MyMachine Oklahoma Exposition in the city center of Oklahoma City: 1. Baseball Machine The Idea behind this dream machine is that an individual child can experience aspects of baseball...
MyMachine Oklahoma is starting up in August 2015 ! This is the result of combined efforts of Susan McCalmont, president of Creative Oklahoma and Jeanie Webb, president of the Rose State College. MyMachine Oklahoma is run by Stan Greil and his marvelous team at Rose State College in Oklahoma City. Rose State College offered its first classes on September 21,...
The ‘MyMachine in 100 seconds’ video is within the 10 finalists from 125 submissions worldwide to win one of the TOP 3 prizes for the #CF100 Video Contest of the Council on Foundations, a network of approximately 1.600 foundations in the United States and abroad. The jury was blown away by the quality, thought and...
