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.
One of the projects in the minor program Embrace is called The Six Word challenge, the idea of the challenge is to first find and then convert your own core values into a message of six words. I have chosen the six words: “Faith Plus Strive Equals Your Goal”. I have chosen these words because I believe that in order for someone to reach a goal, you must first believe that you can achieve it and secondly, you must at least try to reach it.
Faith for me does not only mean believing that you can do something, but also putting faith in God, everyday that goes by I try to put my faith in him because he is the one that guides me and provides everything that I would need. And that is the impact that I wish to make with this message is, if you combine faith and strive for your goals you have all of the ingredients that you need to reach them and face all of the challenges along the way!
This challenge has pushed me outside my comfort zone in many ways, I learned that I can be creative, and that it is okay to fail. At the beginning of the project, I realised that I shouldn't be afraid of what others might think of the result of this project or the way I think and express myself, so that gave me the confidence to brainstorm a wide range of crazy ideas that I normally would not think of or would, but then would throw away. With that being said, I am extremely proud of the wearable I have made. While wearing my core values on the armor and shield I couldn't help myself from feeling like a warrior that is ready to face any challenge!
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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.
