Build the Future Workforce
with Northland CAPS
Partner with motivated students solving real business challenges through projects, internships, and mentorship.
Join 400+ regional business partners shaping future talent.
Why Partner with Northland CAPS
Northland CAPS partnerships are flexible, meaningful, and designed to align with your organization’s goals
Access motivated emerging talent
Bring fresh perspective to real business challenges
Build your future workforce pipeline
Strengthen regional impact through education
Partnership Opportunities for Every Organization
Client-Connected Projects
Share a real business challenge for students to solve.
Guest Speaking
Share your career journey and industry expertise.
Internships
Host a student associate in your workplace.
Site Visits
Invite students to experience your environment firsthand.
Partnership in Action
Real-world projects are the foundation of the fall semester. Business partners bring authentic challenges into the classroom, and students respond with research, ideas, prototypes, and solutions guided by instructors.
This creates meaningful professional experience while helping organizations explore fresh perspectives and future talent.
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.