Heavy Metal Summer Experience at H.T. Lyons preps teens for union jobs in the trades

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Sira Powell enjoys working with tools to bring a concept to life.

That could be the walkway she’s building with her father in their backyard, or the copper-and-sheet-metal lamp she’s been assembling at the Heavy Metal Summer Experience over the past two weeks.

“Me doing it myself, that’s just really cool,” said Sira, a 16-year-old rising junior at Freedom High School and a building trades student at Bethlehem Area Vocational-Technical School…

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