Leif Eidsmoe, who teaches senior high science, made the right career choice after all.

"Originally, I was going to go to med school and I decided, 'No, I don't want to be a doctor. I want to do something else.' Then I got my teaching degree," he said recently.

Instead of fixing broken bones and doing tonsillectomies, he's challenging his students to develop their minds and enhance their future possibilities.

The 2005 Roseau High School graduate attended the University of Minnesota-Duluth before graduating from Bemidji State University with Bachelor of Science degrees in Biology Science and...