NOLS Grad Inspires Minneapolis High School Students to Get Outside
When he’s not teaching Chinese and web design, NOLS grad and high school teacher Randy Baum is busy getting students outside. In 2013, he and a colleague founded the Edison Outdoor Club to expose Minneapolis high school students to outdoor adventures ranging from backpacking trips to mountain biking.
“An avid climber and outdoorsman, Randy Baum grew up playing in the woods and fishing in the lakes outside Lawrence, Kan., where he grew up. It was his sophomore year in high school spent enrolled in the National Outdoor Leadership School that really set him on his current trajectory. He spent that year hiking, camping and exploring in the Wind River Range of Wyoming and the Canyonlands of Utah, all while earning high school credits.
‘That was it for me,’ Baum said.
A Chinese language and web design teacher at Edison High School in Minneapolis, Baum, 35, also works to share that love for the wilderness and all things outdoors with his students. He and colleague John Strand started the Edison Outdoor Club in 2013, which now has upward of 150 students participating in school and out-of-school events each year.”
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