Since 1949, students and teachers from the St. Louis area have benefited from hands-on outdoor educational programs at Wyman. Our most popular educational programs are listed below.

Adventure Programs

• Caving Trips: Missouri is known as “The Cave State” because there are more caves here than in any other state.  This program travels to a nearby cave for an opportunity to explore, learn and have fun while traveling through one of these amazing underground ecosystems.
• High Ropes Courses: Wyman has multiple options available for a full or half day experience on one of our two high ropes courses. Students will learn how to climb, overcome fears and challenge themselves in ways they never thought possible. We can customize programs to emphasize leadership, teamwork, self esteem, etc. We are constantly adding new challenges to our courses. See (WHAT’S NEW) for more details.
• Climbing Wall: The climbing wall is another one of our tools that we use to challenge our participants in a variety of ways. This program includes technical information about safety and climbing skills, as well as multiple opportunities to discuss teamwork, cooperation, encouragement, and self esteem. The climbing wall is suitable for beginners to advanced climbers.

Education Programs

• Team Building: We can customize a program for you. Teambuilding can be incorporated into a 2-5 day program, or you can come out with groups of 12- 150 people for full day of teambuilding at Camp Wyman. Once you have booked a Wyman teambuilding program a Program Director will work with you to create an fun but meaningful experience that will carry on after you leave camp.  
• Teams Course: In this program, our facilitators use our forested teams course as a tool to create teambuilding experiences with a twist. Participants will work on trust, cooperation, communication, and problem solving, all while being safe and having a good time completing physical and mental challenges.
• Forest Ecology: Participants study the processes that keep life flowing in the forest, while hiking through the woods of the Wyman valley, making stops along the way for fun learning experiences. 
• Aquatic Ecology: Participants learn the importance of healthy aquatic ecosystems in this fast-paced class, which includes the chance to catch and study the aquatic critters in Wyman’s own ponds and creek.
• Living History: Participants will experience another way of life as they perform 19^th century chores, make crafts and entertain each other around the fire—just like the pioneers used to do.
• Orienteering: Participants will learn basic compass skills before negotiating their way through the woods using a point-to-point orienteering course. 
• Raft Building : Participants explore their engineering sides as they work together in teams to build mini-rafts out of reusable materials and test them on local creeks and ponds.
• Fishing: Participants learn the fundamentals of catch-and-release fishing on one of Wyman's beautiful lakes. Fishing equipment and bait is provided.
• Tie-Dye: Participants will have a “groovy” experience while tie-dying t-shirts and other items provided by Wyman into brilliant works of art.

Evening Programs

• Campfire: Participants will have a blast around the campfire as they enjoy songs, skits, stories and even s’mores. 
• Night Hike: Participants experience the forest after dark through hiking and sensory activities.
• Philosophers: Participants must race as a team to find our wacky “philosophers” who hold questions that can only be answered through research in our library.  
• Weedi Fungi: Participants compete in a trivia game show where they perform impersonations and answer trivia questions for team points.
• Crazy Olympics: Participants compete as teams in a variety of fun, “crazy” relay races and creative challenges.
• Epic: Participants work as a team to complete certain tasks, which address all eight of the “multiple intelligences.”  Tasks may include carving an animal out of a bar of soap, finding live insects and completing logic puzzles.
• Hay Ride: Take a fun, bumpy ride on a hay wagon around beautiful Camp Wyman!

Program fees vary. Contact Anne Westermann: 636-549-1258, anne.westermann@wymancenter.org.