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.
Two girls, on a mission to recycle cigarette butts. Our idea is to collect and recycle cigarette butts. Millions upon millions of cigarettes and their dirty, chemical & toxic filters are dumped unto our streets, parks, rivers, seas, and oceans. All the while leeching toxins and leaving trails of pollution (and nicotine addicted pigeons) in their wake.
Our mission is to find a way to give cigarette butts a chance of a second life, a better one, whereby they will be removed from our environment. This mission came forth from an idea that actually came while smoking ourselves 😅 . When we were smoking, we started wondering where all of this mess was going. After some research we quickly realised this industry creates so incredibly much garbage. So much garbage and so much pollution that we haven’t been aware of before, with nobody seemingly taking responsibility for it. This idea was sparked from our passion for sustainability and now we want to take responsibility for our own actions and the damage we have caused to the environment with our own habits. And by doing so, inspire as many people as possible to take their responsibility as well. Together we will be able to create a better future!
Now all it takes is to begin ... which isn’t all that easy. We had the idea, the mission and the passion, but there was something missing, it was not enough. All of these ideas, but no idea on where to start. We both study International Business and we have no knowledge of Science, Applied Science, Materials, Environment, Sustainability and the list goes on.
Then the big search started. We wanted to find someone who would know where we should start and would have time to help us out. Someone with understanding of the materials used in the making of cigarettes, with understanding of chemicals as well as how to clean-up something like this. It took a lot of time, but eventually we found the right person, someone at the Polymeer lab at Fontys campus. Someone over there made it possible for us to do supervised experiments and tests in their lab to see if our mission was a realistic one.
So far, we don’t have an answer yet, but we will continue working on our mission. Stay tuned for more information!
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.
