💻 Coding & tech
In the lab or over video — your mentors need screening either way.
Coding camps blend in-person labs with online breakout rooms, and both put volunteer mentors with kids. VolunteerBadge clears every instructor for $5 with biometric identity verification — the safeguard a remote setting needs most.
Two settings, one standard
In-person labs
Mentors lean over shoulders, debug one-on-one, and supervise small groups all day — classic camp access.
Online sessions
Video breakout rooms put a mentor alone with a child off-camera — the exact moment identity verification matters most.
Who to screen at a coding camp
Coding camp screening questions
Do online coding mentors need background checks?
Yes — a mentor in a video breakout room with a minor has the same trust as one in a lab, and parents increasingly expect remote instructors to be screened. Online or in-person, each is a $5 check.
How does identity verification help a remote camp?
It is even more important online: biometric identity verification confirms the mentor on the call is the real, screened person — not someone who borrowed an account or a name.
Our mentors are volunteers and students — still required?
Volunteer or paid, student or professional, anyone mentoring minors should be screened the same way at $5 each.
How It Works
Three steps. Start to finish.
We stripped every unnecessary step. Here's what running a volunteer background check actually looks like.
Build your application
Create a volunteer application in minutes. FCRA disclosure language is embedded automatically — applicants sign digitally, you stay compliant from day one.
No charge to create applications or collect signatures.
Always freeWe verify address history
The moment they submit, we pull their actual address history and cross-reference it. Any gaps or addresses they 'forgot' get flagged before you spend a single credit.
No credits used. Catches incomplete applications early.
Always freeRun the check. Done.
One click searches county courts, sex offender registries across all 50 states, FBI Most Wanted, and OFAC. Plain English results with FCRA guidance included.
One credit per check. No hidden fees.
$5 per checkWe verify the human — not just the name on the form.
VolunteerBadge is the only volunteer screening platform that ties a real, verified identity to every application: a biometric face match against a government photo ID, then triangulated against the SSN trace and address history behind the check. A borrowed clean identity can't get through.
Biometric facial match
A live liveness selfie — proof a real person is present, not a photo.
Government photo ID
The selfie is matched face-to-face against their official ID document.
SSN + address triangulation
Identity cross-checked against the SSN trace and address history on the report.
Enterprise-grade verification at a nonprofit price. The same rigor banks use — built into every $5 check.
Free training for your coding camp volunteers
Screening tells you who to trust. Training tells them what to do. Send every counselor and helper through this free, self-paced course built for the real situations your camp runs into — animated lessons, video, scenarios, and a certificate on passing.
What the course covers
- One duty of care — in the lab and over video
- Observable, interruptible sessions — no private DMs
- Protecting campers’ data, privacy & images online
- Cyberbullying: notice, stop, support, report
- Lab device, electrical & screen-ergonomics safety
- An inclusive room that welcomes every kid to code
- Abuse prevention, boundaries & mandatory reporting
Screen every mentor, on-site or online
$5 per mentor, identity-verified — the standard a modern coding camp needs.
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