Peter Wachtel

★Creative Direction & Design Education:

• Award Winning Design "Innovention" for: Toys, Products, Graphics, Video Games, Theme Park & Entertainment Design, Design Education & Cartoon Voice-Overs.

• Designed & Developed over 500 Toys & Products (Multiple Patents), and works with some of the Best Toy & Product companies in the World & Invented the World Famous GRILL WRANGLER BBQ & ZOMBIE Tool.

• Taught Toy, Product, Set & Exhibit & Graphic Design at: Pratt Institute, Columbus College of Art & Design, Ai Hollywood, Otis College of Art & Design, Parsons School of Design, MIT & Adolfo Camarillo High School.

• Wrote numerous articles for Toy & Edu magazines, blogs, and 2 books on Toys, and was President of The Southern California Toy Association.

• Speaker & Presenter on Innovation in Education at various National educational venues: SkillsUSA, ACTE, Makerbot, EIS, CTE, OxnardU

★Featured Print & TV: Harbor Freight Tools for Schools, SkillsUSA, ACTE, Makerbot, ID Magazine, Playthings, Toy Book, TD Monthly, KidScreen, WSJ, Inventors Digest, The Today Show, HGTV, FOX, ABC, CBS Early Show, Gene Simmons Family Jewels, Food Network's Sugar Dome, Everyday Edisons, The Smithsonian, ABC's The Toy Box, Inventions That Changed History (Discovery+), Tonight Show with Jay Leno & various Podcasts & Radio Shows.

★Teaching Philosophy & Pedagogy: The teaching techniques that we use is imagination. Whatever is around you is worthy of exploration. The desire and love for what you do- make it part of your life, the skills, experience, as well as the wisdom will come. Teaching & Developing Design programs with Unique Classes that are not offered anywhere else in the World by creating Great Learning and Teaching Environments and Experiences for students with "Real World" projects by Inspiring, Educating and Leading.

“I Play, therefore I am”. (#Designer #Inventor #Teacher #Author #Creator)

★E-Mail: Kidtoyology@earthlink.net

★Portfolio: www.coroflot.com/kidtoyology