CTE Recruiting and Demand Capture.

Keep them. They work on the students who show up, and nothing on a phone replaces the smell of a welding lab. The problem is who isn't in the room: the 8th grader whose parent couldn't make a Tuesday night, the sophomore who didn't know the program existed, the family that just moved in. AscendCTE™ carries the same programs to those students and their parents at home, on their phones, and the ones who want in raise their hand there. Your career fair gets a follow-up list it never had.

Your platform includes all the video assets you need to go live — program loops and :30 video promos with VO in all language options desired for each program. If you already have professionally produced videos, we'll use those.

Most are ready to review within a month.

We build, host and maintain the entire platform for you. There's nothing for your IT team to install, manage or update. No servers, no software, no lift on your end.

Forecasting projects how many students are coming. Keep it — it’s the right instrument for budget, staffing and facilities, and we don’t do that job. It just can’t answer a CTE question. A projection has no program dimension: knowing more students are coming next year doesn’t tell you whether to add a section of welding or stand up a cybersecurity pathway. And every model is built on the students who fit. If a program has run at capacity for six years, the forecast sees a stable program — not a suppressed one — because the people who wanted in and couldn’t get in were never recorded anywhere. A projection gives you a number. It cannot give you a name. We don’t forecast CTE demand. We capture it — by person, by program, before enrollment.

The interest form adapts to your institution. K-12 districts collect what schools can legally collect. Colleges, technical and trade schools collect adult contact info, consent-gated. Either way, we only capture what a person voluntarily submits — no advertising cookies, no tracking pixels, no retargeting. Submitted info is stored in an access-controlled, encrypted database under our sole control, hosted on U.S. cloud infrastructure. No other institution can read your records, and we use it only to serve you: never sold, never used for advertising, and never shared beyond the hosting, database, and email services that operate the platform — the same infrastructure layer any enterprise system runs on, each contractually bound to the same protections. You decide where it goes — your spreadsheet or an export format you choose — and you can have it deleted at any time.

Sliding scale based on the number of programs you offer. Pricing begins at $3,000 annually, plus a one-time setup fee based on scope. We'll walk you through the math on our demo call — no surprises.

Absolutely! Your name, logo, tagline and colors - at custom subdomain (ex: northgate.ascendcte.com). Every instance is its own branded experience.