Do Pathfinder families need email addresses?

No. Directors share a signup code and each Pathfinder creates a username and password. Email is optional and only used for staff magic links if you enable it.

Can we require an Investiture Level for certain honors?

Yes. Any class can carry a minimum-level requirement, and registration enforces it — a Friend can’t land in an honor you scoped to Rangers and above.

The Skills Fest

Run your Pathfinder honors festival without the spreadsheets

Honors fairs, camporees, and investiture-season events — scheduled, registered, and reported in one workspace that speaks Pathfinder.

The Skills Fest runs Pathfinder events built around honors classes: pick timeslots and rooms, place honors on a drag-and-drop schedule grid, and let clubs register their Pathfinders with a signup code — no email addresses required. Capacity and waitlists are enforced automatically, teachers see their rosters, and directors get check-in numbers, attendance, and CSV/PDF reports on the day.

Start from the Pathfinder template and the app already speaks your language — Clubs, Club Directors, Honors, and Investiture Levels — with a starter honors catalog you can trim or extend. Set minimum Investiture Levels on advanced honors and the app enforces them at registration.

Running a Pathfinder camporee? The optional lodging add-on handles cabin and tent-site assignment on a drag-and-drop board — capacity, gender separation, and adult supervision rules built in, with printable rosters by building.

What the app calls things for Pathfinder 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	Pathfinders
Group leaders	Unit Leader	Club Director
Teachers	Teacher	Teacher
Awards / classes	Courses	Honors
Levels / ranks	Level	Investiture 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. Send a club invite link and the visiting Club Director registers their club and their own account in one step; you approve it and they’re in your event. They manage their own Pathfinders; you keep the schedule 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.