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.
A lot of questions came to me on this first day of the challenge. The name alone, "The game of your life". A game about my life? Or my whole life summarized in a game?
The assignment was to make a game that can be played and which gives a glimpse into my life. You had to choose an existing game and use that as the starting point for your own game. I wanted to tackle this challenge in a big way to challenge myself.
I wanted to have a "wow" effect at the end of the challenge. I chose to make a combination between Monopoly, Quartet and Triviant Pursuit and soon had an idea of what this should look like.
This has been such an important turning point for my time on Empower. We were given three weeks to do this. For me this could have been three months, I enjoyed this challenge so much.
I was very challenged by this challenge to let my creative side come out. I had pretty much pushed that little bit of creativity away in recent years. I even thought that creativity was no longer in me. Now a few months later, I have been able to develop in the field of creativity and I have become aware of my talents, but also of my pitfalls.
Personally, I found the biggest challenge to choose which parts of my life I would incorporate into a game and which not. It was difficult because I see a lot of possibilities and find it difficult to make choices. I just keep on deliberating. Empower has also helped me a lot with this.
Now I can enrol again for a new study program and the field of study has become very clear to me. Who would have thought that by learning to make a game you get so many questions answered for yourself and that everything can fall into place?
I wish everyone such an experience and a chance to get to know yourself even better with Empower.
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.
