High School Senior starts her own Company

VIENNA, Va. - Aug. 27, 2013 - PRLog -- Vienna, August 27, 2013:  Vienna, VA – Local high school student, Akila Prayaga, started her own business called YCareer and launched it on August 27^th, 2013. YCareer is a website that has a database of over 400 free internships and summer programs aimed for high school students around the United States including residential and virtual programs and internships. The website also features the ability to create a social profile on the website to interact with other users, a blog that has high school students talk about their own experience with their internships and summer programs, constant updates of free student opportunities that include youth advisory boards, fly in programs, and more, and also the ability for users to upload their resumes or essay questions for internship applications onto the site for peer review. All of these features are available to users of the website for a onetime fee of 5 dollars.

Akila’s inspiration for starting such an organization was that she was amazed of all the “student opportunities that are available to high school students that a lot of high school students don’t know about.” She continues saying “there are also a lot of internships available to high school students but they really just don’t know about the programs out there.” Akila, herself, has interned at various companies, starting with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History doing the Younth Engagement through Science (YES!) program in her freshman year of high school, the United States Korean Arts Foundation (USKAF), Fairfax County Republican Committee, and the Design Apprenticeship Program at the National Building Museum in her sophomore year of high school, and the Bank of America Student Leaders Program and Givology in her Junior year of high school.

Akila has also started her own nonprofit called Today’s Readers Tomorrow’s Leaders (TRTL) in the past, which aims to help disadvantaged kids receive better educational opportunities. Akila has collected over 2,000 books and educational supplies, made over 30 educational packets, 70 educational care packages, and 20 audio recordings of public domain books for Today’s Readers Tomorrow’s Leaders (TRTL). She has also started a volunteer outreach program called Youth Literacy Initiative (YLI), which helps other high school students start their own literacy programs in their communities. Youth Literacy Initiative (YLI)