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First-year electrical engineering major Kebba Jammeh joins Bike for Kids in refurbishing donated bicycles for people in the Dane County facing financial instability in a workshop in Madison, Wisconsin on March 9, 2026. Bikes for Kids is partnered with Badger Volunteers (BV), a semester-long program that pairs teams of students with community organizations to volunteer 1 to 4 hours each week at the same organization. Kebba Jammeh says he volunteers for Bikes for Kids because “ I love the bike community. I also love being able to give more kids and adults the opportunity to use bikes to whatever they need it, for transportation, having fun, or enjoying the weather.” (Photo by Taylor Wolfram / UW–Madison)
Patty Loew (wearing white sweater vest at center), professor of life sciences communication and a Bad River tribal member, talks about cultural history and digital storytelling with nine high school students from Wisconsin's Ho-Chunk Nation as the youth gathered near a Native American effigy mound and the Tree of Peace on Observatory Hill at the University of Wisconsin-Madison during autumn on Oct. 23, 2015. The UW Arboretum's Earth Partnership Program and UW-Madison's Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies hosted the group's one-day visit to campus. (Photo by Jeff Miller/UW-Madison)
Badger Volunteer Aya Ishikuri and Jade Ho at Rooted, Inc
Students gather at Allen Centennial Garden for a floral artmaking project. Photo by Aaron Granat

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