internships • mentors • site visits • projects

Professional experiences with Kansas City Employers

Northland Center for Advanced Professional Studies (Northland CAPS) is the premier provider of professional, innovative educational experiences for students in the Northland region of Kansas City. With classes housed in several business locations throughout Clay and Platte counties, high school juniors and seniors from participating districts are provided a fully immersive educational experience in high-demand, high-skill careers that will rapidly accelerate students down their chosen career path.

Students from NCAPS Medicine & Healthcare Strand working with nurses in Children'd Mercy Hospital

professional learning experiences for students

Northland CAPS is a full-year program. During the fall semester, student associates work on reverse-pitched client projects for local business partners that add meaningful value to companies and our local economy. Student associates learn standard business software and technical skills and work regularly with mentors from industry. Early career professional skills like project management, creativity and critical thinking, business ethics, teamwork and time management are instructed, role modeled and measured.

NCAPS students on a site visit to Haldex

PaRTNERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES FOR AREA BUSINESSES

A company can become a business partner through many different avenues. Becoming a guest speaker, facilitating a project, hosting a site visit, being a mentor or even hosting an unpaid internship.

We would welcome the opportunity to work with you and discuss how we may partner with your company. Just complete our online form if you would like to offer your services to our program or brainstorm on a project with our students. 


Over 400 business partners in the Kansas CIty area, including :

  • I am an associate in the Digital Media and Design strand. I have been given an amazing opportunity to practice video editing skills while serving in my community. I’ve mainly used Premier Pro, but this gave me a great opportunity to explore After Effects, something I’ve needed to learn more about. With this time, I’ve been able to create motion graphics, make informational videos, and create announcements!

    NCAPS Alumni - Kyle Ritterbush

  • I am learning about real estate, photography and the home buying and selling process in general. This experience has made me so excited to learn all aspects of real estate and how technology plays a huge role in that career. This opportunity will prepare me for life after high school and college, learning the business of real estate. Making and building long lasting relationships with clients; so that they will come back to you when they need to move and use your services time and time again.

    NCAPS Alumni - Jordan Nance

  • As an employer, it is exciting to see the collaborative spirit with which these school districts have partnered with each other and those in the business community to change to status quo. Holland 1916 is proud to affiliate with the Northland CAPS program and be part of this innovative solution.

    Holland 1916 - Mike Stradinger, CEO

  • I have enjoyed being an intern at Flying Ketchup and it has been exceptionally fun. I have learned a lot already in the first few weeks of my internship. I have learned a huge amount of information on all of the tedious work that is involved with publishing books, and it is greatly appreciated. I have also learned how to take criticism better, which is something I need to work on greatly. There is a good amount of communication and I work wonderfully with my mentor Polly about things. She enjoys having me on her team and has constantly been impressed by the amount of work I have done for her.

    NCAPS Alumni - Jordan Carr

  • As a senior in high school born in Kansas City to Iraqi parents, I’m grateful for the opportunity to work with an organization that truly understands the refugees' hardships and helps with every step of the acculturation process. My internship with Global FC will give me vital real-world experience as I look to one day becoming a therapist for teens who are dealing with anxiety, depression, and general mental disorders in hopes of finally showing mental disorders’ true nature to people who don’t understand them.

    NCAPS Alumni – Rayan Al-Hamdi

  • I have begun audio production training, much of my training has been watching tutorials on-line to get familiar with the different tools on a sound board. For my first in-person training session, we went over what those were, how they work, when to use them, and what they sound like. This included gain, high pass filter, EQ, and a few more. A task that was completed was setting up a guitar meeting that I’ll be leading next week, and putting together a worship set for another church that Pleasant Valley works with.

    NCAPS Alumni - Abby Overby

  • Hiperion is a marketing and software development company; so the tasks I am given varies from day to day. This past week I have been given the chance to help the CEO of the company, Jace with his Spa marketing tutorials. I also have been working on a headstalls logo for a company called Wild Child Headstalls. I am using a lot of different software programs through my work with them such as: Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premier, Slack, Hubspot, and Github. I have had a great time working with the people at the company and it helps me better understand what I can look into in the future.

    NCAPS Alumni- Alex Ross

  • I enjoy having the interns in the office and teaching them all aspects of the Real Estate business. It is not all about selling a home, communication, contracts, advertising, and most of all building relationships. Bricker & Associates is lead by Shawnett Bricker and formed a group of agents that love our fine city and help keep "Moving Kansas City Forward"! We focus on technology, networking and building lasting relationships with our Clients! We work with Residential, Commercial, Multi-Family & Land.

    Bricker & Associates- Keller Williams Northland - Agent