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.
Follow this minor if you want to step out of your comfort zone. I discovered that I have so many skills and a lot of creativity which I didn’t channelize during my major or in daily life.
I wanted to combine technology with journalism, and in my major, we don’t really learn much about technology. We lacked a bit of creativity too, so I was hoping to get that here.
I created a website on which I gathered content for a new learning system. The learning system of my major was quite old-school and lacked creativity and I wanted to do something completely different to spark things up. So, I created a video in 360 on which you can solve a problem using design thinking. The students from all majors could access to try and solve the problem that they viewed in it. The technology helped the student to be in the situation of the problem and take a more hands-on approach in solving it.
I founded a start-up along with a classmate while working on our major project on entrepreneurship and innovation. The idea was to continue building on my future solution and make it into something we could use in journalism. In the end, we created Redactie 360 - a small start-up that makes news videos! We want to bring the news to the people, so, you can actually “be with the news, in the situation”. We believe when the news has more depth and context, public really understands what’s going on and
empathises with it more.
Follow the minor if you want to step out of your comfort zone. I realised that I have so many skills and a lot of creativity which I didn’t channelize during my major or in daily life. Entering the minor made me realise that I could do really cool stuff with the skills I already have. I think that is something that young people need sometimes to get motivated for their major or life, in general. This minor is a good starting point if you want to use all your skills and creativity into something really awesome.
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.
