On the evening of Saturday, September 12, 2026, the family-run restaurant and bar known as The Sandbox, tucked into a strip of Bluestem Drive in West Fargo, North Dakota, will trade its usual weekend rhythm for something a little more glamorous. The occasion is "Girls Day: Botox Bingo!" — six rounds of bingo with prizes that have nothing to do with the classic cash pot and everything to do with a night out among friends. The Fargo-Moorhead tourism calendar lists the event from 6:00 to 11:00 PM, while The Sandbox's own events page pegs the start at 4:30 PM; either way, the plan is the same: grab your girls, grab a daubber, and play for Botox and Xeomin treatments, luxury skincare, and designer bags.
The event is the latest in a long-running series of themed bingo nights that have made The Sandbox a surprising epicenter of charitable gaming in the Fargo-Moorhead area. On the surface, it looks like pure indulgence — a girls' night out with syringes and handbags on the line. But the real story behind the daubers is a nonprofit school for children with autism and other developmental challenges, and the three sisters who built it from the ground up.
That school is Full Circle Academy, a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) institution in Fargo approved by the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction. It was founded in 2020 by three sisters — Jaclyn Bachmeier, Britney Bachmeier, and Rachel (Bachmeier) Haman — who had spent years working in special education and behavioral health. Britney, a board-certified and North Dakota-licensed behavior analyst and nationally certified school psychologist, had served students ages 3 to 21 in the public school system before co-founding the school. The sisters built Full Circle Academy to serve children with autism spectrum disorder, intellectual and developmental disabilities, emotional disabilities, and significant behavioral health challenges — kids who may have struggled in traditional classrooms and need individualized curriculum, low student-to-teacher ratios, and on-site therapy. The school works in partnership with the sisters' pediatric therapy clinic, Full Circle Pediatric Solutions, founded in 2019, which provides applied behavior analysis, speech, and occupational therapy.
Running a small private school for children with complex needs is expensive, and the Bachmeier sisters found an unusual way to help fund it: charitable gaming. Full Circle Academy is licensed by the state to operate charitable gaming in local bars and restaurants, and its primary host site is The Sandbox Restaurant and Bar at 3147 Bluestem Drive in West Fargo. The arrangement is a natural fit. The Sandbox, a family-run establishment, has positioned itself explicitly as a home for nonprofits and community groups to gather, eat, drink, and fundraise for their causes. Its weekly calendar is built around Full Circle Academy's gaming: bingo on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, plus meat raffles and blackjack in the upstairs "Treehouse bar." The venue also hosts a rotating slate of themed bingo nights — blacklight bingo with DJs and neon daubers, kids' bingo over winter break, a spring-break "passport" bingo with vacation prizes, and a Galentine's Glitz & Glam edition — all of them raising money for the school.
The Botox bingo concept debuted in the summer of 2025 under the name "Botox, Bags, & Bingo," when Full Circle teamed up with Chapter Aesthetic Studio, a med spa with a Fargo location, to offer prizes that were, by any measure, substantial. That first event promised five rounds of bingo plus a blackout round, with each round's prize package valued at over $800 — including 60 units of Botox or Xeomin plus luxury products — and a blackout round worth more than $1,700 that bundled 120 units of injectables with a designer handbag. The Sandbox even created a signature cocktail for the occasion, the "Tox-Tini," so guests could sip while they dabbed their way toward beauty. The September 2026 "Girls Day: Botox Bingo!" follows the same formula, expanding to six rounds of play with "seriously good prizes on the line," as the event's promotional copy puts it.
The partner in this glamour is itself a Fargo story. Chapter Aesthetic Studio's Fargo location at 3301 45th Street South is the company's original home — the first Chapter studio ever opened. It began as a med spa called Rejuv, founded by Melissa Rogne, which later grew into the Chapter brand and expanded to more than 20 locations across the country. The Fargo studio offers Botox, Xeomin, dermal fillers, facials, laser hair removal, microneedling, and a range of other non-surgical treatments, staffed by certified nurses and led by a managing clinical director who trained at the University of North Dakota. For a girls' night out in the Red River Valley, it's a fitting collaborator: a local institution that has grown into a national name, pairing its expertise with a school's fundraising mission.
The result is a collision of two worlds that rarely share a room — the clinical world of neurotoxin injections and the earnest world of special-education fundraising — and that's precisely the point. The bingo nights are designed to be fun first, with the cause woven in. Attendees buy bingo card packs, play for prizes, and support Full Circle Academy with every round. The school's charitable gaming page makes the pitch plainly: "Please support The Sandbox and give back to the FCA." The Sandbox, for its part, promotes the events with the enthusiasm of a true host, advertising "the best dang bingo caller in town" and progressive blackout bingo alongside its food and drink specials.
For the women who fill The Sandbox on September 12, the evening will likely feel like a celebration — cocktails, laughter, friendly competition, and the chance to win a treatment or a handbag worth hundreds of dollars. But beneath the surface, every card sold is a small contribution to a school where children with autism and other developmental challenges get the individualized attention they need to learn to read, write, and thrive. It's a reminder that in the Fargo-Moorhead area, even the most indulgent night out can have a deeper purpose — and that a trio of sisters from North Dakota found a creative, community-driven way to keep their school's doors open, one round of bingo at a time.