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.
Understanding how to use hydroponics to maximise the potential of living in smaller spaces and to increase the sustainability of big cities.
In the minor of embrace we got an assignment from Team CASA to create affordable and sustainable housing for all. And how indoor sustainable hydroponic systems can be a part of housing.
Hydroponic is the process of growing plants indoors without the use of soil. Meaning that you only need water and nutrients!
Instead of relying on just one idea, I decided to pitch three concepts to Team CASA
Using a combination of hydroponics and lighting, resulting in the aesthetics of an aquarium with the functionality of a garden.
A cabinet and hydroponic hybrid that combines storage with hydroponics, seamlessly blending in with the home.
This concept revolved around the business applications for hydroponics and Team CASA’s ambition to get into the commercial space.
After pitching my concepts to TEAMCASA we ended agreeing to develop the hydro 4 business concept further. This concept will result in Team CASA being able to sustainably grow vegetables for commercial use. Therefore I decided to create a detailed business plan for my final deliverable as well as a working prototype of the farm.
I brought my concept to reality by trying to create an actual working hydroponic farm. This prototype ended up working better than I expected. What I ended up creating was a semi automated hydroponic system that is sustainable and energy efficient.
Doing this project gave me the unique opportunity to put my hands on solving a real world problem. By doing this I was forced to step out of my comfort zone and explore different ways of thinking, designing and building. Both with the results (of my research, business plan and prototype) as well as my personal growth I am proud to say that the project has been a complete success.
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.
