🔬 STEM & science

Parents check your mentors before they enroll their kid.

STEM camps attract careful, comparison-shopping families — and the schools and libraries that host you expect documented screening. VolunteerBadge clears every volunteer mentor for $5 with biometric identity verification, so "yes, all instructors are background-checked" is the easy answer.

Start screening for $5 $5 per check Identity-verified FCRA-compliant

What every $5 mentor check covers

Enterprise-grade screening depth, priced for a camp budget — the answer parents are looking for.

Identity verification

Confirms each mentor is who they claim before they ever meet a student.

Nationwide criminal search

Multi-jurisdiction database plus county-level confirmation of any hit.

FCRA workflow, handled

Consent capture and adverse-action steps run for you, so the camp stays compliant.

STEM camp screening questions

Why do STEM camps get asked about screening so often?

STEM camps draw safety-conscious, research-heavy parents who compare programs carefully. A visible, documented screening policy is a deciding factor — and increasingly an expectation from the schools and libraries that host camps.

Our mentors are college students and engineers — do they need checks?

Yes. Volunteer status and credentials do not replace a background check. Anyone mentoring minors should be screened the same way, at $5 each.

How is identity verification different from a normal check?

A standard check searches a name. Biometric identity verification confirms the volunteer is the real person behind that name before any result is trusted — closing the biggest gap in cheap screening.

How It Works

Three steps. Start to finish.

We stripped every unnecessary step. Here's what running a volunteer background check actually looks like.

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Volunteer ApplicationCity Parks Dept.
Full Name
Email Address
I authorize a background check per FCRA disclosure. I have received and reviewed the required disclosure document.
Step01

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 free
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Address History Check Scanning…
Step02

We 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 free
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National Criminal SearchSarah Johnson
County & Superior Courts
Sex Offender Registries
Federal Criminal Courts
FBI Most Wanted + OFAC
Step03

Run 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 check
Next-gen identity verification

We 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.

$5included — no premium tier, no add-on
How it works
Live biometric scanFACE MATCH · 99.2%
Verified
Live selfie
Photo ID
SSN + address
Identity confirmed & triangulated

Enterprise-grade verification at a nonprofit price. The same rigor banks use — built into every $5 check.

Give parents an easy yes

Screen every mentor for $5 and put your safety policy front and center.

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