

Illumination Station VBS
- Problem
- Four nights, 16 classrooms, families and volunteers registering in very different ways, and one thing that could never go wrong: a child leaving with the wrong adult.
- Built
- Separate registration for families and volunteers, five automatic reminders, and a walk-in form that won't register a child without a guardian on file.
- Check-in
- A QR code for every classroom. Younger children get matching numbered pickup tags for child and parent, checked against the authorized pickup list, with allergies shown on screen. Older rooms take a quick head count.
- Leaders
- A volunteer dashboard showing how many have signed up, which rooms still need coverage, and a live count for every class.
- Result
- Every child checked in and out by name, with no manual data entry and /usr/bin/bash in software. Ready to reuse next year.




















