NJ High School Students Launch AI-Powered Internship Finder

Two New Jersey high school students have created a free, AI-powered platform that helps their peers to find, prepare for and land internships.

Abhiraj Kesari and Darren Oommen launched myintern.net in March, but the idea started in November 2025, when Kesari found himself locked out of LinkedIn due to its age restrictions. Meanwhile, Oommen had grown frustrated watching students including himself waste hours searching Google for internship opportunities with “little to nothing to show for it,” the two students said.

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Kesari and Oommen eventually came together over a shared belief: that finding an internship should not depend on a person’s age, connections, or how much free time they have to search. That conviction became the foundation for six months of designing, building and testing a platform they wished had existed.

The problem the two founders set out to solve is widespread, they claimed:

“About 59% of young people have never had access to an internship, and the tools that do exist were not built with students in mind. LinkedIn requires users to be at least 16 just to create an account. Most internship sites are cluttered with ads that slow everything down. Google searches take hours and rarely lead anywhere useful. And students without a professional network are left at a significant disadvantage before their careers even begin.”

MyIntern was built to change that, its founders say:

“The platform uses artificial intelligence to match students with verified internship listings based on their interests, background, and goals, with no ads, no age barriers, and no wasted time. Students can filter by type, location, field, pay, and deadline all in one place. A personalized ‘For You’ tab shows internships matched to each student's specific profile, and a monthly curated list highlights the best open opportunities with verified deadlines so students never waste time on expired listings.”

Beyond search, MyIntern offers a full suite of tools to help students actually get the internship. An application tracker lets students organize every opportunity they have saved, applied to or interviewed for using a Kanban-style board. An AI resume builder grades students' resumes and gives specific feedback tailored to the internship they are applying for. An interview preparation center includes a random question generator with a two-minute timer, a question bank organized by category and a video recording tool where students can watch themselves answer questions and receive AI coaching on how to improve.

“We created MyIntern because too many students never get a fair shot at finding internships,” Kesari said. “We wanted to build something that levels the playing field, completely free – with no strings attached.”

MyIntern is live now and free for all students. Its founders say they plan to continue expanding the platform based on student feedback.

Students can sign up online here.

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