Learning directly from business and industry professionals drives learning for St. Louis CAPS student associates. Students in the Global Business & Entrepreneurship, Engineering & Advanced Manufacturing, and Technology Solutions & Logistics courses work collaboratively within the STL Venture Works small business incubator. Lots of serendipitous cross industry connects and handshakes take place each week.
St. Louis CAPS student associates in the medicine, health care and bioscience course presented their emergency room redesign projects to medical professionals at Mercy South and SSM St. Clare hospitals. Students across 7 school districts and 9 high schools worked collaboratively to complete their projects with assistance from mentors at both health care facilities. Each…
On October 28th St. Louis CAPS student associates attended the 9th Annual Trep Start Day. The event is hosted on the campus of Saint Louis University and features teen entrepreneur speakers from across the country. Students get to experience an event hosted on a college campus while also realizing that you don’t have to wait…
Since 2015, St. Louis CAPS student associates from across all four courses come together a week prior to the first day of school for an all day kickoff event. During the 2019-20 school year, STL CAPS will serve students from 9 different high school across St. Louis County and Jefferson County. STL CAPS was the…
On August 1st and 2nd St. Louis CAPS hosted the 3rd annual Missouri CAPS Network Professional Development Workshop at Downtown T-REX. The event included over 40 attendees representing 11 different CAPS programs across Missouri. Program directors and instructors that lead courses on medicine, health care, entrepreneurship, engineering, technology, and education shared ideas and experiences. The…
On Sunday, December 2nd, the St. Louis University High School Elevator Pitch Competition occurred at the Metropolitan Square Building in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. This competition required students to submit a 30-second pitch about an existing business or business idea/concept and post it to the university’s Instagram account. From the vast amount of submissions, judges…
On the evening of Wednesday, December 5th, two cross curricular groups from the St. Louis CAPS program competed against a variety of different schools and organizations from across the St. Louis region in the 1st Annual Battle of the Saints Student Pitch Competition. These students had the opportunity to compete at the Parkway Spark! Incubator…
On October 19, 2018 the St. Louis regional CAPS programs came together for their first CAPS Student Summit. The summit theme was entrepreneurship and students were joined by Pulitzer Prize nominated author, entrepreneur, and CAPS Network ambassador Clifton Taulbert. Clifton delivered a message that called CAPS students to accelerate their imagination and embrace the power…
On October 25, 2018 the student associates in the St. Louis CAPS Medicine, Health Care and Bioscience course presented their patient-centered emergency room redesign projects to medical professionals at Mercy South Hospital. The student associates worked in teams of three to complete the project and a unique aspect of the team composition was that all…
On October 16, 2018 Dr. Travis Bracht, superintendent of the Affton School District, was invited to participate on behalf of St. Louis CAPS in a panel discussion at the Missouri Chamber of Commerce Workforce 2030 Conference. The title of the session was Bridging Education and Business Through CAPS. Dr. Bracht was joined on the panel…
On September 21, 2018 Dr. Travis Bracht, superintendent of the Affton School District, was invited to attend on behalf of St. Louis CAPS the ribbon cutting of the Microsoft Technology Center. The state-of-the-art facility is located within the Cortex Innovation Community in Downtown St. Louis. Prior to the ribbon cutting ceremony Dr. Bracht participated in…
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