Sidekick 
Every youth room has them: the students who never raise their hand and never speak up.
Not because they don’t have thoughts. They have plenty. But raising your hand in front of forty peers can be terrifying when you’re fourteen. So the same three confident students answer every question, and everyone else stays quiet. Sound familiar?
Live Responses in Sidekick Pro was built for the quiet ones.
Here’s the idea: you pose a question during a message, a small group night, or a Q&A with your pastor, and every student responds right from their phone. Their answers flow to you live, and you choose what goes up on the big screen. Suddenly the room isn’t just hearing from the loudest voices. It’s hearing from everyone.
The shift is bigger than it sounds. Ask “what’s something you’re anxious about this year?” out loud and you’ll get silence. Ask it through Live Responses, and you’ll get honesty, the kind of real, unguarded answers that turn a message into a conversation. There’s a boldness students find when they can share a thought without all eyes turning to them.
And you stay in the driver’s seat the whole time. Responses come to you (or another person you trust to play the role of moderator) before they go on the screen, so you decide what gets shared with the room. If you’ve ever handed a microphone to a seventh grader… you know why that matters.
Joining takes seconds: one QR code, no app, no account. If they have a phone, they have a voice.
That’s really what this feature is about. Not technology, but participation. The students in the back row have something to say. Sidekick Pro just gives them a way to say it.