Growth & Marketing | Event Operations | Partnerships & Sponsorships | Content & Media | Startup/Product

Want to see what building a startup and launching a first-of-its-kind event actually looks like from the inside?

Lawnly is looking for ambitious college students and early-career professionals to participate in a hands-on internship supporting the inaugural Lawn Care Olympics in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

This is not designed to be an internship where you spend the semester watching from the sidelines.

You'll get exposure to the real process of building an event and technology startup—from marketing and community partnerships to sponsorships, operations, customer acquisition, event production, and post-event analysis.

The Lawn Care Olympics brings lawn care companies, homeowners, community leaders, sponsors, and industry professionals together for a competitive event built around the people and businesses behind the lawn care industry.

What you'll learn and experience

Interns will receive hands-on exposure to areas including:

• Startup operations and entrepreneurship
• Event planning and production
• Digital and grassroots marketing
• Social media and content creation
• Community outreach
• Sponsorship strategy
• Business development
• Customer and competitor acquisition
• Event-day logistics
• Working with business and community leaders
• Measuring event and marketing performance

Rather than being assigned to one narrow function, interns may rotate through several areas based on their interests, educational goals, and experience.

Why this internship is different

You aren't joining a mature corporation where your contribution disappears inside a department.

You'll be learning alongside the team responsible for launching the first Lawn Care Olympics while gaining exposure to Lawnly, a technology company building software and marketplace infrastructure for the lawn care industry.

You'll have the opportunity to see how an idea moves from concept → partnerships → marketing → execution → customers → measurable results.

For students interested in entrepreneurship, business, marketing, communications, event management, technology, or startups, this is an opportunity to build experience around an actual launch rather than a classroom simulation.

What you can walk away with

Successful interns may leave the program with:

• Resume-worthy startup and event experience
• Portfolio material from projects they personally contributed to
• Professional references based on performance
• Exposure to entrepreneurs, sponsors, business owners, and community leaders
• Experience working directly around a live startup
• Understanding of how customer acquisition and marketplace businesses operate
• Documented projects and measurable outcomes to discuss in future interviews
• Potential consideration for future paid opportunities as Lawnly and the Lawn Care Olympics expand

We are also happy to coordinate with colleges and universities when the internship qualifies for academic/internship credit.

Who we're looking for

We're less concerned about an impressive resume than we are about initiative.

Strong candidates are:

• Currently enrolled in college/university or recently graduated
• Interested in entrepreneurship, startups, marketing, events, business, or technology
• Dependable and professional
• Comfortable communicating with people
• Willing to learn quickly
• Able to take ownership of clearly defined projects
• Comfortable in a fast-moving environment
• Available to participate in preparation leading into the event and/or event day

Students studying Business, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Communications, Hospitality/Event Management, PR, Journalism, Computer Science, or related disciplines are especially encouraged to apply.

Internship structure

This is an unpaid educational internship intended to provide practical learning and professional development. Academic credit is encouraged where available. Scheduling can be structured around academic commitments, and participation is limited to the period in which the internship provides meaningful educational experience.

Participation does not guarantee employment with Lawnly following the internship.

The opportunity

The Lawn Care Olympics is starting in Fayetteville—but the vision is larger than one event.

Interns joining now get something that's difficult to recreate later:

the experience of helping build Year One.

If you want to study startups from a textbook, there are plenty of classes for that.

If you want exposure to what it looks like to actually launch one, we'd like to meet you.