Fruit and Vegetables Vending Machine

About the inventor

Name: Themis
Age:7
Gender:Female
Country:Cyprus
City: Omonoias Square , Anayia, NICOSIA CYPRUS

School information

Name of the school: ANAYIA PRIMARY SCHOOL
Location:Omonoias Square , Anayia, NICOSIA CYPRUS,Cyprus

What will this machine do?

This vending machine will release fruit and vegetables that are healthier than other products that we see in vending machines in our city.

Why was it invented?

I created this vending machine in order to promote healthier lifestyle. With these type of vending machine people will have the opportunity to choose healthy food instead of unhealthy snacks.

When was it invented?

Monday, July 5th, 2021

This Dream Machine idea has been elaborated as part of the MyMachine DreamsDrop Campaign 2021

We selected this Dream Machine idea to be part of the MyMachine DreamsDrop 2021 Campaign.

Creativity going global. We are thrilled to share that our DreamsDrop Campaign 2021 has given over 500 children the opportunity to invent and upload their dream machine drawings to our world-map of ideas. Children from all continents have joined and they are 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, and Bolivia.

Those hundreds and hundreds of ideas go along the spectrum of fun, solving a personal problem, to create a solution for their community and others for a global issue.  That is the true power of our open-ended approach. 

 

In total 39 ideas were selected. For those ideas, Proof-of-Concepts (scale-models) have been build by 130 Industrial Product Design Students from

 

In this case, college students from Mexico worked on making a digital proof-of-concept.

The final result - click image to start video

Here's a thank you message from Themis (right after the message of Christiane) - click image to start video