For CTE Admin & Workforce Leaders

CTE Demand Capture.

Know who wants in — before they walk in.

AscendCTE™ is a mobile-first, video-driven CTE Demand Capture platform. It recruits students where they live, then hands CTE Leaders real program demand — the count, and the names behind it — before scheduling season begins.

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Built for K-12 districts, colleges, and technical & trade schools.

Built by CTEPromoVideos.com — trusted by 228+ CTE programs since 2019

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Which one are you?

K-12 Districts

I run CTE for a school district.

Middle and high school programs. You need demand data before the master schedule locks — and something a parent can actually open.

See the K-12 version

Colleges & Trade Schools

I recruit for a college or trade school.

Community colleges, technical and trade schools. You need program-level inquiries and a straight answer on where recruitment spend is working.

See the postsecondary version

The Problem

You're recruiting blind.

Students can't picture themselves in your programs

A program brochure can't show what welding actually looks like. A career fair PDF can't create the moment a student realizes "I could do that." Video does.

You can feel the demand.
You just can't capture it.

You already know the interest is real — you hear it at the career-fair table, in the student who lingers after the welding demo. But it evaporates: no name, no program, no campus, nothing you can act on.

The decision gets made on a 1995 mental model

Students, parents, career-changers — too many still picture "shop class" from thirty years ago. They weigh a real future in CTE against an outdated stereotype, and you have no scalable way to change the picture.

The Solution

AscendCTE™ closes the gap in days.

Show, don't tell.

Students browse your programs through short video loops. They see what welding feels like. What culinary smells like. What health science means in 2026. The moment they connect, they tap.

Capture real interest.

Every tap, every form submission becomes structured data — delivered to your spreadsheet and your inbox the second it happens.

See demand before you build.

Your dashboard shows which programs are pulling attention this week, this month, this quarter. Stop guessing which programs to expand. Stop investing in programs no one's pursuing.

Meet students where they live.

Mobile-first, video-driven. Multilingual. No app to download. No login. Works the way students already use their phones — and the way parents will, too, when they are sent the link.

How It Works

The student journey, end to end.

They land on your branded platform.

Your colors, your logo, your name. Lives at (ex: northgate.ascendcte.com) — shareable by QR code, text link, email or anywhere you'd put a URL today.

They pick a language.

English and Spanish included (plus any language on request). Every screen translates. Every form translates.

They browse programs through immersive video.

Short program loops play silently as they scroll — welding sparks, culinary plating, healthcare in action. The visual carries the message before they read a single word.

They tap one to go deeper.

Full program page — video promo, what they'll learn and career outcomes. Designed to convert curiosity into commitment.

They submit interest. You're notified instantly.

The lead flows straight to your spreadsheet and select email inboxes the moment they submit. Your CTE team can be following up the same day.

What You Get

Everything you need in one place.

Branded experience Your name, logo, tagline and colors - at custom subdomain (ex: northgate.ascendcte.com)

Full program library Every program you offer, with video loops and video promos.

Multilingual support English and Spanish included - any language on request.

Live analytics dashboard See traffic, interest and engagement in real time.

Interest data to your spreadsheet Every form submission, structured and ready to act on.

Email alerts for every submission Your team knows the moment a student raises their hand.

Zero lift for your team 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.

Beyond Student Recruiting

Win the partnerships and the budget — with data on your side.

Industry Partnerships

Walk into partner meetings with data, not pitches.

Industry partners want to invest in pipeline they can see. When you can show "47 students engaged with our welding program this quarter," equipment donations, paid mentorships and apprenticeship slots land faster. AscendCTE™ gives you the proof.

Leadership & Funding

Make the case for expansion with numbers, not hunches.

New programs, equipment, staff, grant applications — every one gets approved on proof of demand. When you can show which programs students actually want before you spend a dollar, budget approvals and leadership buy-in stop being a fight. AscendCTE™ hands you the evidence.

Who It's For

One platform, tuned to your institution.

K-12 Districts

Middle & High School CTE Programs

Grade-aware interest forms and open-enrollment routing, built around what schools can legally collect from students.

Colleges

Associate Degrees & Up

Community, technical, and four-year colleges awarding associate degrees or higher — adult-prospect forms, consent-gated contact capture.

Technical & Trade Schools

Certificates & Diplomas

Career schools and institutes awarding certificates or diplomas — the same adult-prospect capture, tuned to how technical and trade schools recruit.

Who Benefits

Built for the people who actually move CTE forward.

CTE Directors & Deans

Administration & Leadership

Admissions & Enrollment Offices

Communications & Marketing Teams

Questions We Get Asked

The honest answers.

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.

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.

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.

See the power of AscendCTE™for yourself in real-time.

15-minute Zoom. We'll walk you through how AscendCTE™ would work for your programs, your campuses, your community.