In addition to actually hosting high school juniors and seniors on-site, area businesses can get involved in GO CAPS in various ways. One of them is to host not high school students, but teachers. One local business that has offered teachers several days’ worth of hands-on experience to take back to their classes is Elemoose, a Springfield business that fabricates signage, exhibits, sculptures, stage sets and more for clients across the country including Silver Dollar City, Dunkin’ Donuts, Disney, Bass Pro, Six Flags, and Dollywood. I wasn’t able to get together with the Elemoose folks in time for this piece, because they are currently up to their necks in putting together a major proposal for a big client. But I did talk to two area art teachers who spent four days last summer working with the artisans and technicians at Elemoose. It’s what GO CAPS calls its “Extern” program. “Last year, at the end of the year, they told us that GO CAPs—there was an opportunity to do the Externships
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