As a secondary school graduate, choosing the next step in your education may feel like a scary leap. Nothing to worry about: Pulsed Empower is here to support you. This inspiring, challenging program enables secondary school graduates to uncover their uniqueness and put it to satisfying use. Empower focuses on your wants, needs and abilities and helps you find the direction that fits you like a glove.
Empower is all about the strength of creating. The emphasis is on learning through experiencing, doing, sometimes failing, and starting all over to finally succeeding. That is why books are optional, not mandatory. Empower turns every day into an innovative field trip filled with technology, entrepreneurship, and creativity. At the same time, you stay socially connected with other students and lecturers.
I was quite lost on what I really wanted to specialise in. I wanted a playground where I could experiment with my passions and explore my interests. I was pointed here by my university mentor, and I am truly grateful for that.
I had a lot of fun here! I especially enjoyed being surrounded by people from different fields and collaborating with them on various projects. There were no exams but it’s the most I have ever learned in a time frame of six months. I now know how to create small electronic products, how to program and design them, how to test any invention, how to find target groups, why religion destroyed agriculture and much more….
The most honest answer is that I started my own company! I believe I would have done it anyway, but what I couldn’t have done without this minor is to make it succeed. I knew I wanted to do something to keep analogue photography alive with the use of modern technology, but I couldn’t really figure a good idea on how to do that. The minor made me realise my shortcomings and strengths, during the personal coaching sessions and through the various grow moments in the Future Solution phase.
I understood my biggest issues:
- I lacked focus.
- I am enthusiastic about everything at the start but quickly loose interest as the projects move forward.
- Over-confidence could have been my first name!
Only after realising these aspects, I had a clear vision of who I am as a person, what are my values and what is it exactly that I want to do in my life. I am not over with all these issues, but now I’m more aware of my strengths and weaknesses.
I was the first one to laugh at the fact of getting personal coaching sessions, and then, I was the first (and the only one) to cry during it. And honestly, if that wouldn’t have happened, I wouldn’t be where I am right now. My future solutions project focused on creating 3D printed camera accessories but it was misunderstood by many people surrounding me because I didn’t know how to present my idea. My entire life I had excelled at public speaking but all of a sudden when I was supposed to present my own idea I could not get it through to others. I had to fail a few times to finally get it right, and I am glad I did that because the prototypes I created during the minor were sold out within weeks after I left the minor.
Smashing the status quo, breaking the mould, shaping a new one … just to break it again. Our fast-paced, ever-changing world demands equally evolving education. That is why Fontys Pulsed Academy puts its daring spin on it, based on better, broader, exciting design-based learning. Our curriculum is never finished, our thirst for knowledge and skills is never quenched, and our ambition is never fully achieved.
Fontys Pulsed Academy offers student-centred, talented-based teaching approaches captured in five act-provoking programs. These are primarily aimed at a challenging cocktail of technology & craftmanship, entrepreneurship & business, and design & creativity. Additionally, we offer expeditions for educators to take ownership and (re)design the education of their institute.
As a secondary school graduate, choosing the next step in your education may feel like a scary leap. Nothing to worry about: Pulsed Empower is here to support you. This inspiring, challenging program enables secondary school graduates to uncover their uniqueness and put it to satisfying use. Empower focuses on your wants, needs and abilities and helps you find the direction that fits you like a glove.
Empower is all about the strength of creating. The emphasis is on learning through experiencing, doing, sometimes failing, and starting all over to finally succeeding. That is why books are optional, not mandatory. Empower turns every day into an innovative field trip filled with technology, entrepreneurship, and creativity. At the same time, you stay socially connected with other students and lecturers.
Smashing the status quo, breaking the mould, shaping a new one … just to break it again. Our fast-paced, ever-changing world demands equally evolving education. That is why Fontys Pulsed Academy puts its daring spin on it, based on better, broader, exciting design-based learning. Our curriculum is never finished, our thirst for knowledge and skills is never quenched, and our ambition is never fully achieved.
Fontys Pulsed Academy offers student-centred, talented-based teaching approaches captured in five act-provoking programs. These are primarily aimed at a challenging cocktail of technology & craftmanship, entrepreneurship & business, and design & creativity. Additionally, we offer expeditions for educators to take ownership and (re)design the education of their institute.
