Chase Hanson is from Medford Minnesota, a small town of about 1500 people. He graduated from Medford high school in 2014 and during high school Chase was a lineman for the football team, threw shot-put and discus for the track team, participated on the knowledge bowl team, and acted in […]
Erin Armstrong is from Port Huron, MI. She just graduated from Oakland University Nursing School with her BSN. Erin loves sports, animals, learning new things, and people. She has played sports her whole life (anything and everything), but especially enjoyed volleyball, basketball, archery, and yoga. Erin is traveling to Ireland […]
Josh Dietrich grew up in the suburbs of New York. He has spent the last few years wandering the country working a bunch of seasonal outdoor jobs, such as a snowboard instructor and an outdoor educator. We are excited to welcome Josh to our trip staff this summer. More about […]
Josh Lederman returns to North Star for his tenth summer at camp. A native of Highland Park, Illinois, Josh just finished his first year at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania where he studies Business and Media & Communications. When he is not studying, Josh was very active in writing for […]
Caroline Gaker is from Columbus Ohio. She goes to Ohio state and studies stem education. Caroline loves traveling, the outdoors, exercising, and climbing. Caroline was one of the first NSC staff members at camp to get her Wilderness First Responder, and will be a Wilderness Trip leader this summer. More […]
Tara Krantz joins the North Star staff from Cleveland, Ohio. She has just come home from a year abroad, which she spent traveling around the South Pacific and Costa Rica doing environmental service work. Tara loves the outdoors and in high school she participated in the outdoor leadership program where […]
Rodolfo George Rizo (known affectionately at camp as Rudy) is 22 years old and returning for his second summer in the kitchen. Rudy lives in Oaxaca ,in the southeast part of Mexico. He is studying foreign languages, at his second year of school two more years and he will be […]
Kyle Turpin is a native of Phoenix, Arizona but has been living in Lexington, VA for the past four years attending Washington and Lee University. He just graduated with a BS in Geology and East Asian Languages and Literatures (Mandarin) and will be attending Duke University for engineering grad school […]
Jordan Bow returns to North Star for the summer after taking a few summers off. Jordan lives in St. Louis Missouri and will actually be a Freshman at Washington University in St. Louis this fall studying biology. This will be his 5th year at North Star, and you may be […]
Kyle lives on a farm outside the town of Wenona, Illinois. He will be doing an internship at North Star to finish up my degree in Recreation, Park and Tourism Administration from Western Illinois University. This will be Kyle’s second summer at North Star and he is glad to be […]
Matt Sosler is returning for his 6th summer at camp (1st on staff). Matt is from highland park, Illinois and will be going into his junior year at highland park high school. At school, Matt play percussion and tennis. He is also involved with the media program at HPHS where […]
