Get Real-World Experience That Lasts a Lifetime
The National Cherry Festival is searching for energetic people to help us plan, market and implement our eight-day event. We are proud to offer several different lengths of internship for the National Cherry Festival, including 30 week internships, 15 week internships and 3 week internships.
30 WEEK INTERNSHIPs (Available in 2022)
The National Cherry Festival, Event Planning Internship provides knowledge and education on the process of event planning which includes operating a 5k race, Leapin’ Leprechaun (LL5K) and an eight-day festival, National Cherry Festival (NCF).NCF Interns work on projects and in areas including but not limited to sales, marketing, operations, logistics, volunteer management, ticketing, and social media under the close supervision of the NCF staff. The NCF works with universities in order to meet their respective requirements for students looking to receive credit for their internship.
For a link to the full internship description, please click here.
Applications for 30 week internships are being accepted through October 15th. Please email resume and cover letter to internship@cherryfestival.org.
3 Week Internships
These shorter internships are a great lead in to learning about the National Cherry Festival’s ins and outs and prepare the student for a possible 15 or 30-week internship in the future year. These interns are engrossed in various aspects of the Festival. For more information, please click
here. The projected dates of this internship are June 22, 2022 to July 13, 2022. Applications for this position are opened until filled.
To apply for a 3- week internship, please send cover letter (specifying which internship you are applying for) and resume to
internship@cherryfestival.org.