Heavy Metal Summer Experience

MCA-SMACNA of New Mexico is delighted to partner with Heavy Metal Summer Experience to introduce high school students and recent graduates (ages 15-19) to careers in building trades through hands-on projects, working alongside craft professionals, and discovering local apprenticeship training opportunities.

Heavy Metal Summer Experience seeks to introduce young people to living-wage careers in the building trades.  By normalizing skills-based apprenticeships as a post-secondary education option, Heavy Metal Summer Experience hopes to create workforce diversity and entice the next generation of craft workers.  

Heavy Metal Summer Experience is a 501c(3) incorporated company and is made possible by a dedicated group of working craft professionals, vendors who donate tools and PPE, and contractors across the country eager to open their shops and facilities to host a camp and introduce students to the building trades.  

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Are you a student and interested in participating in the Summer Heavy Metal Summer Camp? Please fill out the interest form below.

Local Supporters

Charity Golf Tournament

The New Mexico Heavy Metal Summer Experience is supported in part by a charity golf tournament hosted by MCA-SMACNA of New Mexico. All proceeds of the charity golf tournament support the no-cost summer camp for high school students across New Mexico to learn and receive hands-on-experience in the mechanical and sheet metal industry! If you are interested in participating please contact Isis at info@mcaofnm.org.