Behind the headline, handwritten sign-in notes such as “amara o. food packing 9-12 3.0 hrs?” flow into a status chip that turns from Checked in to Pending review to Approved, and come out as typed records like “Amara O. · Food packing · 3.0 hrs” with a check mark.
Coming soon · soft launch with LeadUp students
The service tracker LeadUp built for its own chapters in Maryland, Virginia, and New Jersey. Sign up for events, check in at the door, and every hour lands on a verified record you can hand to anyone.
Free for studentsInstalls from your browserParents can follow along
Four steps, all on your phone. LeadUp runs in the browser and installs to your home screen, so there is nothing to find in an app store.
Find your chapter’s events, tap Sign Up, and add it to your calendar. Full events open a waitlist, so you still get a shot.
Your organizer puts a QR code up at the event. Scan it and you are on the roster. No paper sheet to lose.
Afterwards you submit one record: that you attended, your hours, a line about what you did, and one photo from the event.
An organizer approves it. The hours land on your record, your badges move, and the leaderboard catches up.
The same approved hours show up everywhere they need to go, and nowhere they shouldn’t.
A calendar week with the Food packing shift on Saturday from 9 to 12, next to school and personal events.
Calendar
Every event has Add to Google Calendar and a .ics download, so the Saturday shift sits right next to Monday’s chem test.
The family dashboard for Amara O. with 45.5 approved hours, 14 verified events, and a list of approved line items.
Parents
A read-only family view of approved hours, events, and badges. Nothing pending, nothing private.
A printed LeadUp Volunteer Service Verification letter with 45.5 approved hours and a verification ID.
Your record
Download a volunteer summary for counselors, scholarships, and applications. Every one carries a verification ID.
Badges for First Step, Quarter Century, and Half Century, beside a monthly leaderboard led by Priya R.
Recognition
Badges at 25, 50, and 100 hours, monthly streaks, and a leaderboard by school, region, or everyone.
Approvals, rosters, check-in, and reports in one place, instead of a stack of spreadsheets and a group chat.
Partner organizations get their own portal to post opportunities and confirm outside hours by email.
The admin review queue with four hour claims, each with evidence and Approve and credit or Reject.
Why we built it
We coordinate LeadUp’s events. At the end of every semester students asked us how many hours they had, and the honest answer was somewhere between a sign-in sheet, a text thread, and a form a supervisor forgot to sign.
So we built our own tracker. Students sign up and check in on their phones, organizers approve in one queue, and the record adds itself up. The students who show up the most finally have the most proof. It is free for every LeadUp student.
The LeadUp coordinators
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Students in a LeadUp chapter. Create an account, pick your region and school (or ask for yours to be added), and your chapter’s events show up.
After an event you submit one record: whether you attended, your actual hours, what you did, and one photo from the event. A chapter organizer approves it, adjusts it, or asks for a correction.
Yes. Log external service with your supervisor’s name and email. They confirm it from a link, and then an organizer reviews it like any other record.
If you add them. Parents get their own read-only account that shows approved hours, verified events, goals, and badges. Nothing pending shows up there.
Only totals from verified work. Pending claims and student identities never appear there, and you can opt out of public recognition.
No store download. LeadUp runs in your browser and installs to your home screen like an app, on iPhone and Android.
Open to LeadUp students in the soft launch. See the impact page
A paper sign-up sheet for Food packing on Saturday, September 19. Three handwritten names, each approved for three hours, and an empty line for your name.
