Every year Don College employs trainees in the key areas of IT Support and Outdoor Education. Trainees receive on the job training at Certificate III level while they work. We pride ourselves in providing an interesting work environment for our trainees, encouraging a high level of skill development in a variety of tasks and responsibilities.
Dylan Stokes is our new IT Trainee. Dylan attended Ulverstone High and Don College. His role in the IT support area is to help out with teachers' laptops, printers and other routine support tasks.
Dylan is really enjoying working at Don College and hopes in the future to find work in IT hardware support. He also has a strong interest in graphic design.
We have really appreciated Dylan's contribution to the college so far this year.
Dylan Stokes
Abby Willcox is our new Outdoor Education trainee. You will most likely see her walking around campus in a hoodie towel with salt ridden hair. The traineeship involves studying at TAFE to complete a Certificate III in Outdoor Recreation, as well being in the outdoors with Don College students.
The job involves helping the Outdoor Education teachers with organising and running activities across six Outdoor Education classes and one Outdoor Leadership class. At this stage, the team has done a lot of activities in the water, ranging from water entry and rescue, snorkelling, surfing and even river sledding at Meander. Later in the year, they will look at mountain biking, rock climbing, kayaking, bouldering, camping and hiking, as well as learning valuable skills such as first aid and weather patterns.
Abby is fresh out of Don College herself and thought this would be an excellent gap year to gain some experience and broaden her existing love for the outdoors. Next year, she is hoping to pick up her deferred degree of Paramedicine Practice at UTAS.
In the meantime, she looks forward to all the cool things they get to do in Outdoor Ed!

Abby Willcox in action