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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.
Right at the start of the challenge we had the obstacle of choosing one of the themes from a big pile. This was hard because there were multiple of themes we liked. Our only requirements were that we wanted to do something fun and inspiring instead of something huge, heavy and in the end depressing.
We ended up choosing the theme of time pressure and stress, firstly because it is an interesting story, but also because during the minor we often had this feeling ourselves. After we had the theme, we held a few brainstorm sessions in which we created a mind map and a few doodles.
We wanted to make it interactive, and we called it: ready, set, go! Everyone experiences stress, time pressure in any shape or form at at one point in their life, but everyone’s experience is also different from each other. So, we thought it would be important to keep in mind to make it immersive for everyone.
Everyone that we know of has played a game at some point in their life. Some of these games are quite stressful too. And to make it fun for ourselves we decided to create games!
During the creation we did a lot of testing. We think that’s why it ended up being so immersive as it is. Almost everyone who played our games was excited, stressed and engaged. From this we got a lot of positive feedback during the testing and later also in the show moment of the challenge. Through popular vote we even ended up winning the challenge!!!
Right from the start we were all team players, aiming for the same goals together, especially towards our main goal, which was to have as much fun as possible. During the whole process we were continuously motivating each other and connected on such a high level. This motivation and connection within our team was the reason we achieved our result.
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.