Derek Runberg

Derek Runberg is an Educational Strategist, Author and Educator from SparkFun Electronics – a position dedicated to creating partnerships in and out of the classroom with a focus on emerging technologies.

Previously, Derek headed up the SparkFun Department of Education where he authored the books SparkFun Guide to Processing and co-author of the Inventor’s Guide to Arduino, created products for the K-12 Market, developed curricular content and ran professional development workshops for educators.

Before his time at SparkFun that he was a middle school technology/engineering teacher, a digital design lab program instructor and is the author of the “Processing and Interactivity for Educators” website.