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.
Wake up.
Breakfast with my boyfriend, 10 minutes cycling to Fontys Pulsed, have group and one-on-one sessions with my students, develop new educational content with my co-workers, cycle to the supermarket to get dinner, have dinner with my boyfriend, walk 10 minutes to the gym, walk home, watch a show with my boyfriend.
Go to bed.
A normal daily routine for me. In which I pass by tens/hundreds of people. People where I have eye contact with or smile at sometimes, but most of the time just pass by without noticing.
Sometimes I wonder… Who are all those people? What moves them? Where are they going to? What makes them leaving their houses?
In the first two weeks of the People & Society track of our minor Embrace TEC, students will explore what moves groups in society they are unfamiliar with. They will kick-off this track with a hike through Eindhoven guided by an (ex-)homeless city guide to see and hear what being homeless involves.
The following days they will find out what moves a refugee student while walking across the Fontys campus together. Some students will accompany a woman in a wheelchair while doing groceries, what situations will they encounter together? Others will get dirty while cleaning the streets and parks of Eindhoven together with people wo experienced difficulties in finding a suited job. A small group will host a hands-on workshop for 8 to 10 years olds. And more!
How will they experience this short insights into other peoples lives?
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.
