Your Extraordinary Summer Teacher Bios
MITY’s educators are passionate, funny, creative, and inspiring. They encourage students to ask questions, challenge them to figure out answers, and spark a lifelong interest in learning.
“I particularly appreciate the way the MITY teachers go out of their way to make the classes engaging and inspire curiosity. My kid came home full of wonder about what they were learning." - 2026 YES parent
“The teachers were very kind and really inspired my daughter." - 2026 YES parent
Amy Hohenecker
Amy is a dedicated professional educator who has over 25 years of teaching experience. Her teaching career began ...
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Andrea McCarty
Andrea has loved being a teacher at Cedar Ridge Elementary in Eden Prairie for 29 years. She spent ...
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Angela (Angie) Rimbo
Angie is a veteran educator with over twenty years of teaching experience. She holds a BA in elementary ...
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Arielle Thomas
Arielle is a dedicated elementary educator with 15 years of classroom teaching experience in both Washington, DC and ...
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Bill Nara
Bill has been a licensed 7-12 Social Studies Teacher since 2000 and also teaches Chess, Tabletop Strategy Gaming, ...
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Chelsey Mason
Chelsey has been teaching for 19 years at various locations across the country, primarily in the areas of ...
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CSGA Enrichment
CSGA Enrichment provides before & after school enrichment activities for all ages. We also provide workshops and activities ...
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Dr. Angela Boyer
Angela has been a teacher and instructional coach for two decades and finds joy in continuous learning. Before ...
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Dr. Mike DiNardo
Mike has been an educator as a science teacher, coach, and administrator for 32 years, with 28 of ...
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Hawken Paul
Hawken is a Minneapolis-based actor, musician and teaching artist. In addition to his work with MITY, Hawken teaches ...
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Heather Mastel
Heather has a BA in theatre and a Master of Arts in Teaching from Hamline University. She currently ...
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Heather McKinley
For Heather, teaching is a calling and a passion. She has over 2 decades of experience, including serving ...
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Holly Ashton
Holly is a retired math professor who has a lot of fun helping students push their understanding and ...
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Jamie Kovacs
Jamie launched the gifted and talented program in White Bear Lake Area Schools in 2015 and remained teaching ...
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Karen Schmitz
Karen holds a BA in Urban Elementary Education and has been teaching in Hopkins for 14 years. She ...
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Katherine Fraatz
Kathy has over 25 years of experience working in schools as a PreK - 12 teacher, administrator, trainer, ...
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Laura Pettis
Laura has been teaching in the Lakeville Area Public Schools for more than two decades and is currently ...
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Leah Yoemans
Leah holds a BS in Elementary Education and 5-8 Science from Minnesota State University Mankato, an M.Ed. in ...
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Madelyn (Maddie) Holmgaard
Maddie is currently a 4th grade teacher in the Lakeville Area School District. She previously taught 3rd grade ...
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Maggie Barajas
Maggie has been an elementary educator in Hopkins, Minnesota, for 12 years. She holds a B.A. in Elementary ...
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Max Donsker
Max has been working in education for over 19 years and has taught all grades From K-12. He ...
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Meagan (Meg) Juedes
Meg received her BA in Visual Art and Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. She taught ...
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Michelle Gilsrud
Michelle, also known as “Captain G”, has been a teacher for 34 years. Michelle earned her Bachelor of ...
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Molly Andersen
Molly has been a Gifted and Talented teacher working with K-5 students in District 196 for over 30 ...
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Rachel McLaughlin
Rachel is currently the Gifted & Talented Services Coordinator in Inver Grove Heights, where she has worked for ...
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Sarah Geppert
Sarah loves to learn and is incurably curious. She currently teaches Spanish, technology, and mathematics at Frassati Catholic ...
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Snapology
Snapology offers enrichment classes and camps in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics (STEAM). Their ...
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Tech Academy
Formerly Computer Explorers, Tech Academy has been enriching Minnesota’s children with research-based Technology and Science classes and camps ...
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Tessa McKeown
Tessa is a dedicated educational leader with over 20 years of experience as both a classroom teacher and ...
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