Wirth Consulting
About
Doing, teaching, mentoring. An interdisciplinary applied scientist who enjoys discovery and sharing the joy of it with others. Give your young student not only the knowledge they need, but the joy of learning and accomplishment.
Most recently as an employee of Learningtech.org and partner in a joint NSF-funded project with a team from Stanford to create educational robotics for biotech. (https://lhr.learningtech.org)
Teacher and mentor of Maker Spaces in Peninsula middle schools. Brought mindmapping techniques and tools to the d.tech HS to organize "design thinking".
Designer and implementor of wearable devices for medical, consumer and assistive technology applications.
Founder of "Makers With A Cause" (https://www.facebook.com/groups/makercorps/), a social media group for bringing together teams of techies with people with special needs to create solutions with social value.
An award-winning technical leader. A Fanny and John Hertz Foundation Fellow. Holder of a PhD in Applied Science. Distinguished Graduate of the US Air Force Academy and winner of MajGen George O. Squier Award in physics.
Asst. Professor in the Dept. of Mathematics at the Air Force Inst. of Technology. Leader of research and software development teams at Apple, IBM Research and Adobe Systems.
For more details, see: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcwirth/