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 was motivated by my drive to figure out the ‘spark’ element within the challenge. The program Empower gave me the opportunity of being creative again. I was doing home arts and crafts (due to the lockdown) and I enjoyed the challenge a lot, even though finding the materials was challenging since I could only use stuff from home.
At first I found it incredibly difficult to choose and limit myself to one thing. I was being my own biggest obstacle because of that, by not choosing a theme (the spark).
Eventually I was inspired by Disney’s/Pixar’s latest film, Soul, as it coincidentally also is about finding a spark. It was as though it was meant to be! The movie discusses the realisation that a spark and a purpose are not always one and the same, which was quite a comforting thing to see/hear at that moment.
I then started creating and wished to create something that other people would enjoy and would maybe spark them to create something in turn and start a chain reaction of creating, sharing and sparking each other!
I hope that even though if you haven’t done something creative in a long time that showing something that’s simple to create, perhaps at home, and is still beautiful that it might inspire someone else to give it go too, just because you can!
Of course it’s not all beautiful, sometimes things can go wrong. To give it more context: things started to fall apart for me when the printer I was using suddenly stopped working and my project seemed to be impossible to complete. I then quickly swapped ideas and kept going which resulted in a beautiful outcome with which I am very happy with. And that also became my biggest learning moment during the challenge: get started and keep going, create!
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.
