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…