Our Manifesto
Education should be one of the most inspiring things we do, but it isn’t.
Education has become sterile classrooms, obsession with grades, and cramming for tests. It’s hoop jumping and box checking — we refuse to accept this.
We’re relentless about creating a world where classrooms are replaced by premium workspaces, lectures by hands on building, irrelevant class projects by things you care about, and anonymous student bodies by tight knit, ambitious cohorts.
And we’re committed to doing all that while still granting fully accredited degrees.
Our mission: no more hoops, no more boxes, just education that genuinely inspires.
Chris Crittenden
CEO, Sandbox
chris@sandbox.ing
Sandbox Programs

Sandbox Fellowship
Our most intense program. Fellows build full time for 12 months at a Sandbox Space and receive a Masters.

Sandbox Residency
Spend three weeks in the mountains learning to build with AI, then move to NYC or SF to work at a top startup for three months. Earn college credit the whole way.
Real companies, not side hustles
Sandbox isn’t for side hustles.
$310M
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Education doesn’t have to be this way
Stop asking permission.
Start building.







