The UVM GO Community Lottery is open through Monday, May 4th. Use the link below to enter!
ENTER THE UVM GO COMMUNITY LOTTERY HERE
UVM GO Community is an early move-in program; when you enroll in UVM GO Community, you get to move into your permanent room three days before the start of New Student Orientation! You also get to meet other incoming students, engage in fun and enriching activities in the Burlington area, and start to feel confident navigating campus. Make early and lasting connections with friends, faculty, and staff before the semester begins!
UVM GO Community offers programs co-designed and led by UVM faculty and Residential Learning staff. Each unique program encourages students to enhance their understanding of a specific theme or topic through hands-on activities, adventures, and site visits. Check out the itinerary below to see how one UVM GO Community group filled their days last year!
Group size is capped at 20 students per program and selected via the UVM GO Community Lottery, which runs from April 6 – May 4, 2026. You’ll find out whether you’ve been accepted into UVM GO Community in mid-May, so you can start planning your arrival!
Specific UVM GO Community Program Placements are determined by a student’s Residential Zone. When you enter the lottery, you can indicate your preferences for the UVM GO programs offered in each zone. If selected in the lottery, you’ll enroll in UVM GO Community in May, and you’ll find out your specific program placement in June, after you learn your housing placement.
2026 UVM GO Community Programs by Residential Zone
For incoming students living on ATHLETIC CAMPUS
(Residential Learning Communities: Global Connections and Sustainability)
- A Sweet Introduction to Vermont: From honey to maple to dairy, you’ll have a delicious hands-on introduction to the flavors, history, and sustainable practices that make Vermont unique.
- Agroecology and Community Engagement: Examine the food system as catalyst for, and reflection of, meaningful social and environmental change. Your visits to area farms and non-profits will illustrate the global importance of healthy and sustainable agriculture practices.
For incoming students living on NORTH CENTRAL CAMPUS
(Residential Learning Communities: Arts and Creativity, Gaming Collective, and Wellness Environment)
- Build Your Brain: Join your group for action packed days hiking Mt Philo, exploring Shelburne Farms, hitting up Burlington Surf Club, doing yoga on the green, and learning all about how to build a healthy brain and find success during your first weeks at UVM.
- Creating a Sense of Place: Engage with creative and artistic practices on and off campus! You’ll visit the artistic spaces on campus and have focused creative time working with a variety of different media and techniques. You’ll also explore Burlington’s South End Arts District, check out the lake, and practice printmaking at an artist collective studio.
- It’s Your Move! Make Your Play: Making time for games and play can help you unwind and unplug while building connections with new friends. You’ll be introduced to some hidden gems on and off campus as you take an improv workshop, visit a local board game café, tour the UVM multi-media lab, and solve your way out of an escape room.
- Mind, Body, Planet: Kick off college by reconnecting - with yourself, new friends, and the outdoors. Try forest bathing, yoga, meditation, and creative reflection while learning simple ways to manage stress and care for your wellbeing and for the planet.
For incoming students living on REDSTONE CAMPUS
(Residential Learning Communities: Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Leadership & Social Change, and Outdoor Experience)
- Exploring UVM’s Natural Areas: Experience the University of Vermont’s outdoor living laboratories on a guided tour of its managed natural landscapes. From the summit of Mt. Mansfield to an 80-acre urban forest on campus, discover how these spaces support research, learning, and connection to nature.
- Healing Ecology: Explore the concepts of herbal remedies and traditional medicine while you forage for wild plants, make delicious mocktails, and learn about the ecological past, present, and future of nearby farms and forests.
- Sports and Rec in a Small State: Get active and get connected to sports and recreation opportunities on campus and in the Greater Burlington area! See what Vermont’s athletic teams, nonprofits, and small businesses can reveal about important topics such as leadership, inclusion, accessibility, and entrepreneurship.
For incoming students living on UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS CAMPUS
(Includes Liberal Arts Scholars Program and Patrick Leahy Honors College)
- Dive In! Exploring Lake Champlain’s Global Role: Battles, shipwrecks, scientific discoveries, Hollywood movies, border crossings, and a legendary creature named Champ – you’ll get to know all about Lake Champlain’s storied past and critical role in the future.
UVM GO students in LASP and PLHC will participate in Dive In! Exploring Lake Champlain’s Global Role, which is offered in multiple concurrent sections, and is exclusively for students in these programs living in University Heights.