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Study: Mechatronics Home country: The Netherlands

Ijsbrand Geutjes

Ijsbrand Geutjes looking out into the nature.

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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.

Frankly, this minor was not my first choice. The minor came my way due to a study delay but I don't regret taking this minor for a second.

How would you describe your experience of the Minor?

The biggest plus for me was that EmbraceTEC gave me space for working on my passion and developing my identity. That is not conventional of a minor course. In addition, I learnt how I can develop products based on Design Based Working and hone my passion for 3D printing.

Any special anecdote or future advice that should would like to share.

One special bit was that I got the chance to be part of a Biohacking event and got an ‘NFC chip’ installed in my hand. It’s a 12mm rice-grain under my skin and I can use it to open lockers at school or even pay at a groceries. I have been working on applying technological gadgets to my life for some time and this was a logical next step for me.


I was asked by ‘Omroep Brabant’ if they can film me about the chip in my hand; and I didn’t mind it. What I didn’t know though, was that it would go viral and for that entire week my phone rang off the hook and I gave four radio interviews. I was on the NOS Instagram and Facebook page; if you go to NOS.nl and type in my name you can still find it! It was indeed a very special moment.

Watch Ijsbrand’s Biohacking experience here:

Omproep Brabant

Eindhovens Dagblad

Pulsed for Good

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.

Pulsed for Good

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.

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