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 go to a lot of music festivals/shows and the thing that can really elevate that experience for me is an epic light show.
Presented with the possibility to make anything I wanted during challenge 1 of the Empower-TEC program I knew it had to be about light. I remembered a YouTube video I watched years ago of someone that built an infinity cube with LED’s and I started searching the internet for tutorials on how to make one. I stumbled on a guide with 3D models attached and got to work.
I quickly found out that soldering the LED strips was going to be a massive pain in the ass. I couldn’t solder when they were in the frame because that would’ve melted the 3D printed frame. I wish I had pictures of the janky way I soldered with everything sorta hanging in the frame with the strips I was soldering taped to a wooden board. (un)Fortunately these don’t exist otherwise I wouldn’t be allowed to make a bigger version. Another fun part was applying the one-way mirror foil to the acrylic plates without air bubbles. It took every drop of patience not to give up because every single time there’d be air bubbles. I didn’t let any of this stop me and powered through the frustration. I’m really proud of the end result.
All the compliments from people seeing me work on it, gave me the confidence to ask if I could make a bigger version for the events of Klub Pulsed. I would love for something I made to bring joy to others. People seemed to really like this idea, so that’s the next step in my story.
It’s already proving to be a much bigger challenge than just making every part bigger, but I’m confident that with the help of my fellow Pulsers I can pull this off.
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.
