ATAS Worldwide Inc., primarily based in Allentown, Pa., introduced the eighth annual Lehigh Valley Let’s Construct Development Camp for Women was held this summer season in Bethlehem, Pa. ATAS has been a supporter of this camp from the start, with financial and materials donations, together with a number of staff who helped within the planning and execution of the camp. In addition they supported the third annual camp in Northeast Ohio, and the second annual camp in Phoenix.
Let’s Construct is a free week-long camp designed for center and highschool age ladies to discover the development trades, structure, engineering, and building supplies manufacturing via hands-on experiences and area journeys. As a part of this 12 months’s curriculum on the Lehigh Valley camp, the ladies realized how one can set up standing seam steel roofing, and steel wall cladding. As a brand new exercise this 12 months, the campers made a steel chicken feeder, whereas studying how one can function a steel brake. The chicken feeders had been made out of aluminum donated by ATAS, within the pink and teal colours of the camp’s brand. The women took their feeders dwelling on the finish of the week, as a memento of their camp expertise. Tim Coughlan, technical service advisor, Kevin Klersy, CAD draftsman, Julie Wheeland, inside technical salesperson, and Tyler Csanadi, inside technical salesperson had been instructors.
For the Northeast Ohio camp, the ladies realized how one can set up standing seam steel roofing and steel shingles. ATAS’ Coughlan, and Dave Willard, Midwest district gross sales supervisor, volunteered as instructors for the camp. The Phoenix campers additionally realized how one can set up steel roofing, they usually toured ATAS’ manufacturing facility in Mesa, Ariz. Kristee Day, inside technical salesperson, Missy Wright, workplace service assistant, and Jason Kroboth, plant supervisor, helped with the tour.
All through the week, the campers be taught many abilities, together with carpentry, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, roofing, tiling, portray, flooring, and window set up.
Lee Ann M. Slattery, gross sales help supervisor at ATAS, who’s a director on the board of the Lehigh Valley Let’s Construct Development Camp for Women, says, “Though I’m concerned in a number of commerce associations and occasions all year long, the Let’s Construct Camp is all the time a favourite. It’s so rewarding to be a part of one thing that not solely teaches ladies some vital life abilities, whether or not they pursue a profession in our trade or not, but in addition, and extra importantly, helps to construct their confidence. A number of the campers begin the week a bit shy and not sure, however most finish the week excited and energized, embracing what they’ve realized and the friendships they’ve fashioned. One of many highlights of the week is when campers wire a wall mild throughout the construction they’ve constructed. Once they flip the change and the bulb lights up, they’re amazed that they made that occur. One other spotlight is the top of camp celebration, when their relations come to camp to view the constructions their ladies have constructed.”
