Personal Experience & Biography
Tara Juniper is the CEO and Founder of Armitage House, an education company dedicated to transforming how children and families experience learning through research-backed, project-based curriculum that integrates science, critical thinking, creativity, and real-world problem solving. Her work bridges engineering, education, and human development, with a focus on helping children learn how to think, not just what to memorize.
Tara graduated cum laude from Inter American University with a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering and received the Dean’s Award every year of her academic career. She began her college journey in middle school through advanced science and mathematics study. During her undergraduate years, she served as President of the Society of Women Engineers and was selected to participate in malaria vaccine research, contributing to early-stage scientific investigation and data analysis.
Her engineering background includes work with renewable energy systems, including fuel cells and water-based cooling systems for industrial applications, as well as NASA-related research examining how space weather impacts global communication systems. She is also the holder of a pending patent for a novel method to detect space weather without satellites, addressing a critical vulnerability in global communications infrastructure.
In addition to her technical career, Tara held the title Miss Puerto Rico 2010 – Miss Diaspora New York City and worked for over a decade as a professional model. This experience strengthened her public presence, communication skills, and ability to translate complex ideas into clear, engaging narratives for broad audiences.
Today, Tara is the creator and host of an educational science TV show and digital series that teaches children scientific thinking through hands-on experiments, curiosity-driven questions, and real measurement. The series blends physics, chemistry, and systems thinking with playful storytelling, making advanced concepts accessible and engaging for young learners and families.
Over the past decade, Tara has focused her research and hands-on work on education, neuroscience, child development, cognition, and creativity, supported by formal training in Early Childhood Education. She currently serves as a Pre-K Teaching Assistant, gaining daily classroom insight into how young children learn, regulate emotions, and build foundational academic, social, and emotional skills.
In parallel, Tara brings over two decades of study in Eastern philosophy, formal logic, and mindfulness, including Asian philosophical traditions that emphasize observation, clarity of thought, and disciplined inquiry. This background informs a systems-level way of seeing that helps identify hidden weaknesses, inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement in both learning environments and organizational design.
Her mission is to make education engaging, purposeful, and deeply human, preparing children to think clearly, create boldly, and lead thoughtfully in a rapidly changing world.
