Bridging Business and Bright Minds
From internships and client-connected projects to site visits and guest speaking — partnering with us gives your business access to fresh talent, new ideas, and meaningful collaboration.
Guest Speakers & Mentors
Guest speaking or Mentorship benefits business partners by showcasing their expertise, boosting brand visibility, and connecting with future talent. It offers a chance to strengthen community presence and demonstrate a commitment to education and workforce development, creating a mutually beneficial experience.
Site Visits
Our business partners can provide a site visit with a large group or a handful of students studying your career channel or industry.
REAL WORLD PROJECTS are the foundation of our curriculum for the fall semester. Northland CAPS project work is facilitated by our instructors through relevant problem-based projects provided by business partners. This provides our student associates with relevant industry experience while immersed in a professional environment every day in this profession-based learning approach.
Sample projects completed by our student associates:
• Partnered with the YMCA of Greater Kansas City to address food insecurity and create better access to healthy options and meals by developing a site plan and 3D layout for a greenhouse, community garden, walking trail and landscape.
• Collaboration with the KCATA to develop and implement a survey on ridership for the public bus service. Student associates conducted the survey, presented the findings and proposed suggestions on how to make ridership a better experience.
• Partnered with UGA Finance to help their security team evaluate and recommend updates for protocols. Our student associates made recommendations on physical and electronic security after evaluating the current operations. Security tests were created for the employees to demonstrate competencies in order to keep their clients financial data safe.
• Collaboration with Autism Works to create a promotional video as well as capturing live event photo content for the organization.
• Partnered with NKC Hospital and Tri-County Mental Health to study opioid addiction in the area. Through this work our student associates developed a plan to educate recipients of Narcan kits of the risk factors, signs and response for overdose patients.
PROVIDING HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE IN PROFESSIONAL WORK ENVIRONMENTS is the intent of the Northland CAPS program. This provides students with the opportunity to gain authentic experiences that relate to their academic and career interest, and prepare them for future jobs. The program is also designed to give employers an opportunity to guide and evaluate future talent.
There are many benefits to working in an internship. According to HR.com and Internships.com, seven out of ten internships turn into full-time jobs with the company where students interned.
Interns can:
Build a pipeline of candidates, decreasing recruitment costs
Act as advocates in recruiting other high school and college students
Offer new perspectives and innovative ideas
Assist employees with new technology
Assimilate rapidly to part-time or full-time position
Internships are offered during our class time either 7:30 am - 10:00 am or 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm, 4 days each week (Tuesday - Friday). Student associates are receiving high school and college credit while they are with companies during the spring.
Each year over 40% of these opportunities are converted to paid positions with companies. A powerful workforce development tool for any company.