MyMachine
About this good practice
Problem: Lack of 21st-century skills
Employers today value 21st-century skills over academic qualifications. These skills are essential for success in our rapidly evolving, interconnected world. The global economy demands creativity, innovation, and collaboration. However, our education system, still rooted in the first industrial revolution, hasn't adapted to meet these needs, causing issues in teaching and assessment methods.
Solution: Empowering idea realization
Education should teach students to value and realize their ideas, fostering diverse talents, collaboration, persistence, and resilience. A growth mindset enables students to dream big and contribute positively to society. Tackling global challenges requires collective effort and the ability to bring ideas to life, regardless of the career path.
MyMachine: Fostering creativity and problem-solving
MyMachine empowers students to become creative problem solvers, innovators, and compassionate individuals.. The program involves:
1. Idea Generation: Primary students invent their 'Dream Machine'.
2. Concept Development: Higher Education students design and create scale models of these machines.
3. Prototype Creation: Technical students build working prototypes, collaborating with the inventors and designers.
4. Exhibition: showcase of original drawings, scale models, and prototypes.
This project-based learning approach demonstrates real-world impact, helping students gain lifelong skills.
Resources needed
1. A franchise contract with the MyMachine Global Foundation
2. A MyMachine Coordinator
3. Educational Partners
4. Funding for
the limited production costs for producing prototypes
off- and online communication
the setup of the annual exhibition
travel and accommodation
the annual membership fee
Evidence of success
stimulate education and entrepreneurship are important regional objectifs in the regional development strategy. MYMachine helps to reach these objectifs by generating the following ouput:
> 1,54 million student-hours
> 192.000 educator-hours
> 25.000 ideas
> 522 working prototypes
> globally spread
> awards and endorsments
Potential for learning or transfer
No matter the scope of your vision, whether personal, local, or global, making it happen starts with the creative confidence that your ideas matter and that your ideas can make a difference. That is how we enable young people to drive their own future and help them to become self-motivated, thriving, creative problem solvers, artists, innovators, entrepreneurs or creators, and especially strong, caring persons.
That is how we will see many more of us doing a lot more to shape this better future we all need to design together.
MyMachine is easy to implement in other regions by signing a franchise agreement. This triggers the onboarding process to implement the methodology in the region.
The key success factor is the right local partnership. The franchise partner is preferably outside of education, but capable to engage with educational partners of all levels, plus other stakeholders, like funding partners, industry, media.
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