Our Program

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.

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.

Students that successfully demonstrate adequate development of professional skills during the fall semester are placed in semester-long internships during the spring semester. These internships are spread across hundreds of business partner locations and range from hospital experiences to radio stations (and everything in between)! Students report back to Northland CAPS locations once per week, but the remainder of their time is on site working for their internship provider.