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Enough Room for a Football Team, Wrestlers, Weightlifters … and Their Gear

Handling 2016 Storage Needs in a 1914 Building

Giving Everyone a Little More Wiggle Room

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RECLAIM YOUR SCHOOL SPACE!“What Can You Do With a Mobile Mini?”

$25,000 Grand Prize

If your school is faced with increased enrollment, space constraints, cluttered classrooms, and limited funds for facility expansion, Mobile Mini can help. We’ve worked with thousands of schools to affordably transform crowded spaces inside in the school into:

• Additional classrooms • Music practice rooms

• Nursing stations • Extra-curricular and club meeting rooms

• Weight rooms • Conference and meeting rooms

• Larger science rooms • Special education areas

• Theatre/performing arts areas • Curriculum/resource material check-out rooms

Schools of all sizes use our safe, secure, controlled-access storage containers to create centralized storage areas for custodial supplies, extra desks and chairs, sports team equipment, music/theatre/performing arts equipment, records/documents, and more – all the materials and supplies that commonly consume precious school instructional and administrative space.

We can help your school avoid investing in construction of new buildings, storage sheds or other permanent structures.

We’ll make the process easy and affordable for you. A Mobile Mini storage container is no more than a few days away through our 135+ Mobile Mini locations around North America. We have a wide variety of lengths, widths and door placement configurations to accommodate your storage needs. Contact us at 866-344-4092 to learn how.

Inside this brochure you’ll see examples of how several schools have used Mobile Mini’s storage containers to create new space they’re now using for instructional and other purposes. They’ve reclaimed their space! Or as some put it – “got back their wiggle room.”

Also inside this brochure is information about how your school may qualify for $25,000 or a free storage container for one year! Learn more at www.mobilemini.com/whatcanyoudo.

“What Can You Do With a Mobile Mini?”

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Balsz Elementary School Phoenix, Arizona 900 Students 20’ Container

An Answer to the Dump Room Dilemma“Every school has at least one,” says Balsz School principal Dr. Michael Halpert. “As schools change out curriculum, replace technology, deal with sports equipment—for the want of space—a dump room always materializes somewhere on campus. And it only grows. Before you know it, you could be looking at five, 10, 20 years or more of accumulation.”

Nobody knows for sure when it first happened at the 900-student, K-8 Balsz School in Phoenix, Arizona. But at some point its teacher resource center crossed the line and became—the dump room. Wall to wall. Ceiling to floor. Late last year the time had finally come to take it back.

Enter Mobile Mini’s secure, portable storage containers. In the case of Balsz School, it’s a 20’ x 8‘ container located just outside of the building, very close to the resource center. “Our transformation is being carried out by our great volunteers,” Dr. Halpert said. “Getting everything in and out of the container is working very well for them and for us.”

“The storage container lets us get our resource center back into operation at the same time we’re working through our accumulation of resources – organizing what stays, what goes and what belongs in the classroom,” he said. As it turns out, simultaneous renovation and reorganization

is just one benefit Dr. Halpert sees in having a Mobile Mini. “When administrators are faced with opening up every available square foot for instruction, I could see these types of containers being used on a more long-term basis to instantly free-up space by housing anything and everything not attached to a classroom,” he said.

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“Nobody is complaining. So you know this is working out really well.”

“This” is a Mobile Mini portable storage unit placed next to the football field of Gilbert High School in Gilbert, Arizona. It’s home of the Tigers – all 2,400 of them. The storage unit is being used to house all of the football program’s practice and field equipment which—for a freshman, junior varsity and varsity program with 110 players—is no small matter.

Just ask the wrestlers or anyone lifting weights. Before the new storage unit, the wrestling and weight rooms doubled as storage areas for the football equipment. As did a coaching office and miscellaneous other areas around campus.

“It meant our equipment had to be moved in and out in order to use the wrestling room,” said Varsity Head Football Coach Derek Zellner. “And it made for very tight quarters for everyone trying to use the weight equipment. While that’s bad enough, it also meant our expensive equipment was always out in the open, always accessible to anyone and everyone.”

“The real payoff is that we now have all of our equipment in one place under lock and key,” Coach Zellner said. “When we’re not having practice, just myself and a few others have access.”

And how does a storage unit look on campus? “You know, a number of our facilities are portable buildings. Our container fits right in with them,” he noted. “The storage unit is doing a lot for us,” Coach Zellner said. “It gives us our wrestling room, our weight room, and full use of a coaching office. And, during practice, we just open the storage unit’s doors and everything we need is just 20 feet away.” Before? Not so close. Each practice, one unfortunate squad on the team was tasked with lugging everything off the field, up past some building and back to the makeshift storage…’til next practice.

As Coach Zellner said, “Nobody is complaining. So you know this is working out really well.”

Gilbert High School Gilbert, Arizona 2,400 Students 40’ Container

Enough Room for a Football Team, Wrestlers, Weightlifters… and Their Gear

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Prescott, Arizona’s Kirkland Elementary School has a rather unique challenge. Most of today’s school equipment, technology and operational needs never existed when its building was constructed. A server room just wasn’t a concern back in 1914. School Administrator Michelle Perey says that while everyone has been creative in their space utilization, “We didn’t see the forest for the trees. Once we started putting things into our Mobile Mini storage unit, we began finding new opportunities for our space that were always there…we just never saw them before.”

For the past five years, the floor of her office had been home to the school’s IT consultant. But with custodial and other supplies moved from the server room to the storage unit, not only does the consultant have office room, but the school now has a technology room!

The most significant transformation came when space was freed up in and around the school’s multi-purpose room. Students teamed up with custodial staff to move the room’s chairs, tables, PE and musical equipment into the storage unit, which sits just 30 feet from the door. “It is very easy for us to retrieve furniture, equipment and supplies as needed. And most important, to put them back when we’re done.”

An entire room is now available for the school’s special education needs. Smaller rooms are now freed up to accommodate important one-on-one special education sessions. Previously, students, teachers, therapists and accompanying equipment had to awkwardly make do in the cafeteria.

“We’re now realizing that we can put it all away. Yes, it has opened up specific rooms,” she said. “But it has also opened up a lot of working space for everyone throughout our entire building.”

Kirkland Elementary School Prescott, Arizona 60 Students 40’ Container BEFORE

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“I don’t know about other schools, but our building wasn’t designed with a lot of storage in mind,” said Payson High School Principal Brian Mabb. “Although I’ll have to say, our staff has been very creative in finding interesting hiding places for things all over campus – many of which are just now coming to light.”

Just coming to light because the high school of 750 students now has spacious on-site storage. Although there’s room on campus for building a storage facility, there’s little interest in enduring the expense and drawn-out hassles of construction. Instead, the school’s new secure storage capacity came in the form of a Mobile Mini storage container.

Virtually from the moment the container was set on the ground, a change began to take place. Most notably, a classroom – which months earlier had been commandeered to be a staging and storage site for refurbishment projects – was suddenly back in service as a classroom!

At first, it was a matter of recapturing the classroom for health and nutrition classes. But with its location adjacent to the gym, utilization expanded to a long list of additional uses, from PE instruction and testing to clubs, extra-curricular activities, and use by outside organizations. When changing out chairs, desks and other classroom furnishings, there’s no getting around the need for space. “Most

of these things you have to assemble,” he said. “Then you have to store it all until you’re ready to deploy it, and then hold onto everything coming out of the classrooms until you can determine its disposition. Plus, you always need room to keep a few extras of everything handy.”

“Our onsite storage container has helped us move all of that out of our valuable classroom space.”

“The ability to centralize our storage outside of our classroom space has been really well-received by everyone,” according to Principal Mabb. “Our custodial supplies are now centrally stored and our teachers and students are no longer navigating around boxes that before might just show up in a room.”

“We are now using closets as closets and the hot water heater

room for the hot water heater. We are all just enjoying a little

more wiggle room.”

Payson High School Payson, Arizona 750 Students 40’ Container

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Your School May Qualify for $25,000 or a Free Storage

Container for One YearEnter our “What Can You Do with a Mobile Mini?” contest by telling us how your school used our storage containers to transform space inside the school to more – or better – functional learning environments.

The contest entry period begins Feb 15, 2016 and ends Dec 31, 2016. Entries will be reviewed in Jan 2017.

The school with the most innovative use case and compelling transformation story will receive a $25,000 cash award from Mobile Mini. Only one cash award will be given.

The three runners-up will receive a free Mobile Mini container for one year. Runners-up may elect to continue to have their existing storage container remain on school property with all rental fees waived for the one-year period, or have an additional storage container delivered to the school with all rental, delivery and other fees waived.

The winner and runners-up will be contacted in January 2017 and an announcement will also appear on the Mobile Mini website. We will also contact all other entrants.

Enter online at www.mobilemini.com/whatcanyoudo.

All you have to do is provide your contact information, the name of your school, then upload some before and after pictures along with a 500-word story describing how your school used one or more Mobile Mini storage containers to create more and/or better functional space inside the school

Send an email to whatcanyoudo@mobilemini.com if you have questions. Or contact us at 866-344-4092.