The Skills FestAward events and club days for Awana ministries
From Puggles to Journey — schedule award sessions and game rotations, register clubbers without email, and run the night smoothly.
The Skills Fest schedules Awana events around award sessions and activity rotations: set timeslots and rooms, drag sessions onto a visual grid, and let clubs register clubbers with a signup code — no family email addresses required. Capacity and fair waitlists are automatic, and directors get check-in numbers, attendance tracking, and printable rosters.
The Awana-style template pre-fills Clubs, Club Directors, Leaders, Awards, and Club Levels from Puggles to Journey, so screens read the way your ministry already speaks.
What the app calls things for Awana ministries
Every label is configurable — the starter template pre-fills the words below, and they appear everywhere: menus, buttons, and reports.
| Concept | Default | Your words |
|---|---|---|
| Small groups | Units | Clubs |
| Participants | Participants | Clubbers |
| Group leaders | Unit Leader | Club Director |
| Teachers | Teacher | Leader |
| Awards / classes | Courses | Awards |
| Levels / ranks | Level | Club Level |
What you get
Configurable terminology
Rename the small groups (Club/Troop/Pack), the awards (Honor/Merit Badge/Adventure), the participants, the leaders, and the levels or ranks — the whole app speaks your organization’s language, starting from one of ~12 templates or a blank slate.
Drag-and-drop schedule grid
A rooms-by-timeslots board. Drag classes between rooms and times; room capacity and a max-classes-per-room limit are enforced as you go.
Class capacity & fair waitlists
A class’s capacity is the smaller of the room’s capacity and the teacher’s limit. Full classes take a waitlist with automatic, fair promotion when a spot opens. Multi-session classes, minimum-level requirements, secondary teachers, duplicating a class into other timeslots, and a “manage students” roster with add/remove and schedule-conflict handling are built in.
Family self-registration — no email required
Leaders share a signup code; kids create an account with just a username and password. Staff and leaders can use email magic links when email is enabled, but it is never required.
Day-of check-in
Check-in numbers, live counts, and background-check flags for the door on event day.
Reports & exports
Registration grids, unit summaries, attendance summaries, printable timeslot rosters, background-check lists, and member exports — sortable and searchable in the browser, downloadable as CSV or PDF.
Questions from groups like yours
Yes. Each club registers and manages its own clubbers while your event holds the shared schedule, rooms, check-in, and reports.
The Skills Fest is independent software. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any organization named on this page; names are used only to describe the groups our customers belong to.