BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Give a girl a hammer, and she can drive in a nail.<\/p>\n
Send her to Lehigh Valley Let’s Build Construction Camp at Lackawanna College Bethlehem Campus, and she will learn to build a future.<\/p>\n
“We teach them about the trades, about not just carpentry, masonry, plumbing, we teach them architecture and some engineering, and we expose them to manufacturing,” said\u00a0Janet Grazul.<\/p>\n
15 year old Karline Cornelio is one of 20 girls who have learned how to build walls, wire electrical, and install plumbing and windows.<\/p>\n
“I really like working with my hands,” Cornelio said. “Construction has always been something that I felt was cool and interesting.”<\/p>\n
This is the 10th summer the camp has given girls ages 12 through 18 a glimpse into a world dominated by men, showing them that there’s a place for them as well.<\/p>\n
“One of our original campers is now a plumber,” Grazul said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Grazul is the director of the camp. She’s also an architect, so she knows what these girls are going through and what it can do for them.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I was 10 years old when I wanted to be an architect,” she said. “Their confidence level goes up, their self-assurance, they’re just, you know, the teamwork leadership comes out in some of them that they, you know, just really blossom.”<\/p>\n
And that’s exactly what it’s done for Karline, who is already making plans.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I would like to be an engineer, a civil engineer,” Cornelio said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Give a girl a hammer, and she can drive in a nail. Send her to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,805],"class_list":["post-229182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-lehighvalley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}