Derek Runberg is the is a Corporate Strategist, Author and Educator from SparkFun Electronics - a position dedicated to creating corporate partnerships with a focus on emerging technologies and new markets for SparkFun. Previously, Derek worked in 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.