The Leeton High School student blew away the teachers for her work on the SBAT program, which involved a traineeship with ANZ Bank and a distance course with the Australian College of Management.

It's a gruelling program involving hundreds of hours of painstaking work, but Amber managed to finish it all eight months before the deadline.

Her teacher Lisa Schemtzer was so impressed that she nominated Amber for the SBAT of the year award, and she's now currently in the finals.

"She smashed it," Mrs Schemtzer said.

Mrs Schemtzer has worked with many students as the head Technology and Applied Studies teacher, but she says Amber stood out for her work on the SBAT.

It was a hard slog that involved many hours working on online modules at home, but she finished all of them and came out the other end with a Cert II in Business.

She learnt a great deal from the modules, but she says the most valuable hands-on experience she got was the 100 days spent working at ANZ Bank.

During her traineeship she learnt how to work the till and work with people.

"It was good, because I could never speak in front of people before; I had social anxiety," Amber said. "It shaped me as a person."

Over those 100 days she says she's built up a great deal of self-confidence and feels ready to get out there and face the real world, armed with the practical skills she's picked up along the way. She's only 17 years old and still has a ways to go before graduating high school, but she's already well-placed to tackle whatever future lies ahead of her.

No matter what line of work she chooses to pursue as her career, her teachers are positive she will get out there and smash it.