Trainees honoured with youth awards

Griffith’s apprentices and trainees have been honoured in a special award ceremony.

Sonia Rinaldo, Area Manager for MEGT Australian Apprenticeships Centre, has been actively involved in the Griffith Rotary Club for many years and has extended her support for employment initiatives in the region through her involvement in the Rotary East Youth Training Awards to recognise the efforts of a host of the city’s up-and-coming employees.

“The awards encourage and hopefully help them (the recipients) see a clear career path and what training does for them so they continue (with their studies),” Rotary’s Denis Conroy said.

More than 150 people turned out for the awards ceremony where the winners of the nine categories were announced.

The categories covered everything from school-based traineeships to Indigenous youth, as well as apprentices who have either just started out or nearly completed their apprenticeships.

Mr Conroy said the quality of trainees this year was again impressive and the judges were full of praise for the applicants.

“The judges [including Ms Rinaldo] were looking for those who were keen and passionate about their work, who had very defined goals about what they wanted to achieve and what they understood about the businesses they were involved in,” he said.

The winners on the night came from a huge range of industries, including hospitality, automotive mechanical engineering, environmental health, information technology and transport and logistics.

Australian Apprenticeships are an Australian government initiative.

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