This highly contested award was taken out by Mitchell Brown who is employed by Hunternet Group Training Company and hosted by Hetronic Australia.

The judge said the five finalists all displayed, in various aspects of the assessment process, outstanding attributes and are a credit to themselves and the manufacturing industry they represent.

However Mitchell Brown has shown an understanding of how the apprenticeship model of learning has suited him. The application of work based practice to the theory learnt has enabled him to best utilise his apprenticeship term.

Mitchell’s employer HunterNet Group Training Company and Hetronic Australia are glowing in their praise of his workmanship, indicating standards well above his peers and states he is a credit to himself and the industry.

Mitchell’s interest in electronics led him to undertake his apprenticeship in Electronics Scanning and Detection which he successfully completed in June 2014. Mitchell is now undertaking his Advanced Diploma in Electrical Engineering and upon completion intends going to university to study Electrical Engineering and proceeding down the career path of Automation.