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Extreme Sandbox hosts Heavy Metal Drive-Thru, a fun and safe construction exhibit that allows anyone to come watch heavy equipment at work during Minnesota’s “Stay at Home” order.
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HASTINGS, Minn. (April 22, 2020) – Calling all heavy equipment fans! Everyone from the young to the young at heart now have a chance to come to Extreme Sandbox and experience the equipment “working” up close. Heavy Metal Drive-Thru is an interactive construction exhibit that allows people of all ages to come watch large excavators, bulldozers, and wheel-loaders put on a fun show for the public while still following the CDC’s health guidelines. Heavy Metal Drive-Thru was created as a way to give back
12 Unique Corporate Events in Dallas
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It can be a little intimidating when you’re the one in charge of picking the right venue for your next corporate event. There are so many different options to choose from. You want to pick something that isn’t going to put people to sleep after the first few minutes as well as something that allows your team to share an experience and grow closer because of it. Lucky for you, Dallas offers some great options for you to give your team a fun, new experience.
Choosing the right venue for your corporate event can be an intimidating task. You don’t want to pick something where everybody gets bored within the first five minutes. But, you also won’t choose something that gives your team a unique experience where they can grow closer and have something to remember for months to come. Luckily, Minneapolis offers some great options to provide your team with a new experience. At Extreme Sandbox, we let you play on construction equipment and focus on giving you a
Not Your Typical Classroom Experience: High School Seniors Will Soon Shift from Simulators to the Real Thing!
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Heavy machinery experience shows how businesses are getting creative to address nationwide skills gap HASTINGS, Minn. (May 7, 2018) – Students in a Workplace Development Program are about to cap off their simulated stick time by operating REAL heavy machinery. And that includes a 26-ton excavator. On May 9th, twelfth graders in the Legacy I-3 Program will head to Extreme Sandbox’s 10-acre facility in Hastings, Minn., to drive the very machines they’ve been learning about. Students from Harding High School, Burnsville Alternative
Top-rated adventure company bringing “Edutainment” to Rosedale Center HASTINGS, Minn. (Sept. 19, 2017) – Extreme Sandbox is gearing up to bring a version of its popular outdoor experience indoors to Rosedale Center in Roseville, Minn. Projected to open early November, Extreme Sandbox Mini will offer a fully interactive construction experience to complement the adventure company’s existing sites. The 5,700 sq. ft. space will be equipped with smaller electric mini-excavators and new, state-of-the-art, full motion, surround screen simulators developed by CM Labs Simulations, Inc.
Extreme Construction Camp
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Ditch the Spreadsheets, Cubicle and Stress—Get a Taste of Working the Land This Harvest Season
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ditch the Spreadsheets, Cubicle and Stress—Get a Taste of Working the Land This Harvest Season Extreme Sandbox partners with local farmers to bring farming front and center HASTINGS, Minn. (Oct. 3, 2016) – Have you ever wanted to know what it’s like to use farm equipment or harvest crops? Extreme Sandbox’s newest adventure, Extreme Harvest Experience, will get people away from their day job and onto the farm. A partnership between local farmers with thousands of acres in the Hastings
Extreme Sandbox Hosts Shark Tank Alumni Event For Charity Come ask the questions you’ve always wanted while raising money for children in need HASTINGS, Minn. (Sept. 26, 2016) – Entrepreneurs and other curious minds who have wanted to chat it up with ABC-TV Shark Tank alumni will soon get their chance, while helping a noble cause. On Sunday, Oct. 9, from 10am-2pm, fellow alum Randy Stenger, CEO/founder of Hastings-based Extreme Sandbox, will host a public event and fundraiser with other well-known show participants including
Public Invited to Extreme Sandbox–Texas April 14 Grand Opening Celebration New venue at Tanglewood Resort and Conference Center marks popular adventure attraction’s first step toward national expansion and celebrates new equipment sponsorship with Komatsu HASTINGS, Minn. (April 5, 2016) – Extreme Sandbox, a top-rated heavy equipment adventure attraction, and Tanglewood Resort and Conference Center, invite the public to join them for a special Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting event on Thursday, April 14, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., celebrating the opening of Extreme
Extreme Sandbox Announces Exclusive Equipment Sponsorship with Komatsu America
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Extreme Sandbox Announces Exclusive Equipment Sponsorship with Komatsu America CEO Randy Stenger’s recent Shark Tank appearance was catalyst for the partnership between top-rated adventure attraction and one of the world’s leading heavy equipment manufacturers HASTINGS, Minn. (March 30, 2016) – Extreme Sandbox, a top-rated, heavy equipment adventure company, today announced an exclusive equipment sponsorship agreement with Komatsu America Corp., a leading global heavy equipment manufacturer. The alliance will introduce a growing number of markets around the country to heavy machinery as a form