Just months after being named as the winner of the Murray River Culinary Challenge, he has now been announced as one of only eight students in Australia to receive an iVET Excellence Award.
A student at Echuca College, Dylan has been taking hospitality subjects through the vocational education and training program iVET.
Echuca College principal Jess Sargeant said the school was proud of everything Dylan had achieved in the past year.
“At the previous school I was at, we had more than 100 students taking courses through iVET. If you can imagine that many students taking iVET subjects in every school around the country, for Dylan to win this award is a fantastic effort,” Ms Sargeant said.
“It’s just an amazing credit to him, and we are so proud.”
As to how Echuca College and iVET work together, the school provides the hospitality teacher, while iVET marks the assessments.
Ms Sargeant said the college’s hospitality teacher, Rick Smolenaars, nominated Dylan for the award.
“Rick only came on with us full-time this year and has been an amazing addition to our staff,” she said.
“He can generate such passion in the students, which is obviously inspiring Dylan to achieve such excellence.
“Before this year, no-one from Echuca College had ever won the Murray River Culinary Challenge. The partnership between them, as teacher and student, just works really well and is clearly bringing the best out in Dylan.”
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