Bertan, Bruce-Technology Instructor

Mr. Bertan joined the TDS team in 2014. He earned his BA in ECE from the University of South Carolina and his M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction, with an emphasis on Integrating Technology into the Curriculum, from George Mason University, Fairfax, VA. He has been the Owner and Director of Technology Education for Computer Explorers in Tampa Bay for over thirty years and has been teaching for over forty years. He began his career teaching third grade in Fairfax County, VA,  where he took his first computer course and immediately began to apply this knowledge in the classroom. Shortly thereafter, he was awarded a grant to run an after-school computer lab for at-risk students. He was then appointed to the position of Elementary Technology Resource Specialist, where he focused on evaluating software, writing a curriculum that integrated technology at all grade levels, teaching all students each week, and developing and implementing a summer elementary technology camp. In 1992 he left the classroom to start the COMPUTERTOTS/Computer Explorers franchise in Tampa Bay. Today Mr. Bertan offers TechStars STEM classes/camps for preschool through middle school throughout the Tampa Bay area, and as part of the TDS team, teaches tech and elective classes to 5th-8th grade students.  Mr. Bertan enjoys the outdoors, the Bucs, and the Rays, and is the proud father of two sons and a daughter.