Meet the Woman Behind Armitage House:

How One Mother Built a Wonder Movement**

Most people think world-changing ideas begin in big rooms — boardrooms, lab rooms, conference rooms. Mine started in a hospital room at 3 PM on a warm August afternoon in New York City, the moment I held my son for the first time.

He blinked up at me with these wide, ancient eyes, and something inside me whispered:

“Pay attention. This child will change everything.”

At the time, I didn’t know how literal that whisper would become.

The Brooklyn Beginning

I was born in Brooklyn — a borough with rhythm, grit, culture, immigrants, thinkers, dreamers. A place where you learn early that the world is big, complicated, and full of stories.

By age 12, I already had a strange habit:
I would read the dictionary for fun.

Not because I had to.
Because every word felt like a universe.

That same year, while most kids were trading stickers or watching cartoons, I was on a college campus taking after-school classes, walking between buildings with a notebook pressed to my chest like a treasure.

I didn’t have the language for it then, but now I do:
I was studying the architecture of wonder.

The Unexpected Bridge: From Pageantry to Engineering

My story has never been linear.

I’ve been:

• a Miss Puerto Rico 2010 international contestant
• an industrial engineer graduating Cum Laude
• a NASA collaborator working with satellite data
• a researcher obsessed with how humans learn
• a homeschooling mother determined to do things differently

On paper, these look disconnected.

In reality, they were stepping stones.

Pageantry taught me presence.
Engineering taught me systems.
NASA taught me scale.
Motherhood taught me purpose.

The Lullaby Experiment

When I became pregnant with my son, something shifted in me.
I started treating motherhood like the most meaningful research project of my life.

Every lullaby was a sensory experiment.
Every walk was a field study.
Every question he asked became a hypothesis:

What sparks a child’s imagination?
What slows it down?
What helps it soar?

I wasn’t trying to raise a “smart” child.
I was trying to raise a whole child — confident, curious, expressive, capable.

And I was willing to research for years to understand how.

The Day Everything Changed

Flash forward to first grade.

My son stood in the school gym beside his science fair board, small but steady, explaining satellite data patterns to adults who had to bend down to hear him.

That project didn’t just win first place.

It won Fascinated Favorite — the award voted by students themselves for the most captivating experiment.

And then, something impossible happened.

His project — our kitchen-table project — led to an actual scientific discovery.

A discovery now connected to a pending patent.

When the email came in confirming the scientific significance, I sat at the dining table and cried. Not because he won something. But because I knew:

Learning like this should not be rare.
Wonder like this should not be accidental.
Every child deserves this spark.

That moment became the line between before and after.

Before: private experiments, journals, research, our cozy universe.
After: Armitage House.

The Birth of a Wonder Empire

Armitage House didn’t begin as a business.
It began as a promise.

A promise to create a new kind of learning — one that honored children’s minds instead of confining them.

One that fused:

• project-based learning
• creativity research
• neuroscience
• mindfulness
• debate and logic
• the classics
• Lean Six Sigma
• sensory integration
• the deep magic of childhood curiosity

All woven together with elegance, imagination, and joy.

Armitage House became a living ecosystem where learning feels like stepping into an adventure.

What I Build Now

Today, Armitage House is growing into a global movement. I create:

✨ Wonder-based curriculum
✨ Storytelling science videos with my son Atisha and Mia the dog
✨ Journals, books, and guides for families
✨ Consulting for elite parents and innovative schools
✨ Experiments that turn kids into real scientists
✨ Workshops and speaking events
✨ A future line of kits and products that bring wonder into every home

Everything we create carries my signature combination:

Love + Systems
Magic + Method
Imagination + Intelligence

It’s industrial engineering meeting motherhood.
NASA precision meeting childhood play.
Research meeting intuition.
A mother meeting her destiny.

What I Believe

Here is my philosophy — the heartbeat behind Armitage House:

💡 Children are born brilliant.
💡 Wonder is a birthright.
💡 Learning should feel magical and meaningful.
💡 Creativity is not a subject — it’s a way of being.
💡 Families deserve tools that elevate joy, not stress.
💡 Education can change the world if we dare to reimagine it.

This Is Only the Beginning

Sometimes I go back to that 12-year-old girl in Brooklyn reading the dictionary and smile. She had no idea what she was preparing herself for.

I also think about the moment in the hospital room when I met my son for the first time.
When the whisper came: “Pay attention.”

I did.

And look what it became.

Armitage House is more than a company.
It is a movement of wonder, imagination, and global learning.

If you’re a parent, educator, dreamer, scientist, storyteller, or simply someone who believes children deserve magic — welcome.

You are part of this story now.

With wonder,
Tara
Founder, Armitage House
Builder of the House of Wonder