Wisconsin Experience Bus Trip 2025
Five-day UW-Madison leadership journey through Wisconsin communities, industries, and natural landscapes.
Wisconsin Experience Bus Trip 2025
The Wisconsin Experience Bus Trip (WEBT) is a five-day leadership journey through Wisconsin where UW-Madison students learn with peers, local communities, industries, and civic leaders. The 2025 trip was structured around the Wisconsin Experience values and connected classroom learning with community engagement, outdoor education, environmental stewardship, and reflection.
Itinerary
Day 1 – Purposeful Action
Wausau: Monk Botanical Gardens; Hsu Ginseng Farm. Students volunteered at a public garden to help prepare the space for the summer season, then visited a leading Wisconsin-grown American ginseng producer to learn how culture and community shape global businesses.
Day 2 – Empathy and Humility
Stevens Point: Central Wisconsin Environmental Station (CWES); Chippewa Falls: Chippewa Area History Center & Chippewa Falls Museum of Industry & Technology. Students built teamwork through an outdoor challenge course, then learned about Ojibwe/Chippewa history and Wisconsin’s contributions to science and technology.
Day 3 – Relentless Curiosity
Cornucopia: Lost Creek Adventures Kayaking; Bayfield: Les Voigt State Fish Hatchery. Students kayaked on Lake Superior near Roman’s Point and learned about regional geology, conservation, economics, and community through a fish hatchery tour.
Day 4 – Empathy & Humility
River Falls: Values-Based Leadership Workshop; Spring Valley: Crystal Caves. Students practiced values-based leadership and discussed conservation, human impact on nature, and relationships with land during an underground cave tour.
Day 5 – Intellectual Confidence
Baraboo: Aldo Leopold Foundation. Students reflected on the trip through Aldo Leopold’s land ethic and considered how they developed as learners and teachers across the week.
Source
Trip information is adapted from the official UW-Madison SOLI Wisconsin Experience Bus Trip page.