{"id":21858,"date":"2026-10-10T12:48:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T01:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/?p=21858"},"modified":"2026-10-10T12:48:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T01:48:03","slug":"nillumbik-eltham-apprentice-jaeden-is-national-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/2026\/10\/10\/nillumbik-eltham-apprentice-jaeden-is-national-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"NILLUMBIK: Eltham apprentice Jaeden is national winner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Victorian apprentice technician Jaeden Matteo D\u2019Aloia has been named the Overall Australian Winner in the 2026 Capricorn Rising Stars Awards, after being named Victoria\/Tasmania Regional Winner.<br>The 20-year-old, from Eltham, is completing a Certificate III in Light Vehicle Technology at Box Hill TAFE while undertaking his apprenticeship with Technique Automotive, a specialist European vehicle workshop.<br>Jaeden stood out for his commitment to learning and the contribution he is already making to his workshop. Alongside his apprenticeship, he is studying a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Property and Real Estate at Deakin University.<br>Technique Automotive owner Alex Hicks said Jaeden had exceeded expectations from the moment he joined the business.<br>Capricorn Group Chief Executive Officer Brad Gannon said Jaeden was a deserving recipient of the Australian title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victorian apprentice technician Jaeden Matteo D\u2019Aloia has been named the Overall Australian Winner in the 2026 Capricorn Rising Stars Awards, after being named Victoria\/Tasmania Regional Winner.The 20-year-old, from Eltham, is completing a Certificate III in Light Vehicle Technology at Box Hill TAFE while undertaking his apprenticeship with Technique Automotive, a specialist European vehicle workshop.Jaeden stood&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_siteseo_robots_primary_cat":"none","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21864,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21858\/revisions\/21864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dindi.com.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}