Hi! I'm Denise, and these are my three children surrounding me. After 10 years of teaching science in a New York City public school I took a break from teaching, (or at least that's what I thought, I was doing), to raise my children. The experience of watching them learn and take in information as infants, then toddlers and now as high school and college students, (sigh), has shaped my view of how children learn best. As a result, I developed this inquiry-based, holistic approach to teaching science. I hope you will join us on this journey of creativity and discovery. 

 Stemtastic has been in business for over 10 years now and I am so happy with what’s been accomplished from top notch birthday parties, to library and after school programs, children across Long Island are demonstrating so much enthusiasm for science and learning to engineer their own projects.

Since 2019 The Natural Learner’s coop has been nurturing student’s creativity and problem solving abililties, laying the foundation for a lifelong love of learning and discovery.