CTEConnect is the next premier online employment and opportunity platform geared towards usage by high school students, parents, teachers, and administrators.

• Comprehensive opportunities library: CTEConnect offers a comprehensive library of internships, programs, research fellowships, and other venues of employment from across numerous employers.
• Application lifecycle management: Completely manages the lifecycle of applying to programs and integrates with third party application systems.
• Detailed Reporting: Students, Parents, and all necessary faculty members will have the ability to instantly see reports regarding student mentorship hours and involvement.
• Administrator Oversight: Student progress can be monitored at numerous levels which allows everyone to understand how students interact with employers and ensure that students are truly career ready.

• Django -- Primary framework for the website which allows for web page rendering as well as all backend technology. Django comes with a full suite of features that ensures security including CSRF tokens, host header validation, and cross site scripting (XSS) protection.
• SQLite3 -- SQLite3 is utilized in order to store user information as well as other models including businesses, hours requests, WBL Opportunities, etc. SQLite3 is preferable as it integrates easily with Django.
• Added benefit of utilizing a SQLite3 database as opposed to the tradition MySQL database is that SQLite3 can be stored locally. In addition, through the OneDrive integration, the SQLite3 database is constantly backed up to the cloud.
• No costs associated with it due to the benefits provided by the GitHub Student Developer Pack. OneDrive provides constant database backup so a new database can be created in an integrity breach. The website is also written in a manner such that it firsts refers to a requests “url pattern” and then the corresponding function handles the request allowing for a selection form of running the program.

• Clone the repo via the command git clone https://github.com/Lucky93212/CTEConnect
• Open a terminal in the cloned folder.
• Ensure you have the relevant dependancies installed including Python, Django, and the necessary Python libraries, if not be sure to install them via the pip install [LIBRARY] command.
• Run the command py manage.py runserver
• The client should be running on http://127.0.0.1:8000