"I saw GAF Roofing Academy scrolling through Instagram," says 22-year-old Angelique Mojina from Fontana, California. Students weren't required to have experience-just a passion to learn the trade. His business has partnered with GAF on seven roofing classes over the years, plus the roofing sales and insurance course at the Roofing Academy event. I'm super gung-ho about the GAF Roofing Academy," he says. "We can go into communities across the country and bring people into the trades that otherwise wouldn't get here. "Yesterday, GAF donated 60 squares of shingles to the Sister League of San Diego that we installed." The GAF Community Matters ethos matters to Antis. "When GAF wants to do anything, Antis wants to partner with them," says Charles Antis, owner of Antis Roofing & Waterproofing. Antis Roofing & Waterproofing from Irvine, California, taught the sales and insurance class. Celoseal Roofing from Orange, California, taught the commercial low-slope roofing class.BYLTup from Long Beach, California, taught the residential steep-slope roofing class.The courses were hosted by three GAF certified contractors, eager to share their expertise with the next generation of roofers. Throughout the event, they gained the necessary basic skills to begin a roofing career. Students chose one focus, then participated in a five-day course combining in-classroom education and hands-on training. The SoCal training covered three key industry sectors: residential steep-slope roofing, commercial low-slope roofing, and roofing sales and insurance. "I applied, was accepted, and now I have a roofing job just one month after leaving the military. Recently searching job sites, he learned about the Roofing Academy training. Soto, a US military veteran born in Puerto Rico, served for years while deployed around the world. "I got a roofing job starting this Monday," says GAF Roofing Academy graduate Joncele Cavona Soto. The Roofing Academy was just as valuable to the graduates. The fact that GAF provides contractors with highly organized events like this, with eager recruits and competent trainers-it means a lot to me." "GAF is the only manufacturer in the construction-not just the roofing but the construction-industry that is listening to the call that contractors need help. "The roofing industry is dealing with a labor shortage and lack of skilled labor," says Scott Bolt, a third-generation roofer and president of Celoseal Roofing in Orange, California. Helping the Roofing Industry and Graduates GAF is a leading proponent of roofing education and training, providing countless opportunities like this to align industry leaders, reduce the industry labor shortage, and empower communities from the ground up with long-term, well-paying roofing opportunities. The event concluded with a career fair, which allowed students to immediately meet with potential employers. The free, week-long event united roofing leaders, contractors, and aspiring roofers, eager to learn the trade. Since then, the character has been featured in other films and television series, most recently in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) starring by Chris Evans:Īnd in the next chapter of the Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and in its sequel (2019).This past fall, more than 50 students participated in GAF Roofing Academy training week in Southern California. His job is to help the US government during World War II, but towards the end of the conflict, during one of his actions to save the world, with a plane crashes into a glacier remaining hibernated until our days.Īlthough Captain America often struggle to maintain his ideals, like a man out of his time, he remains a highly respected figure among superheroes, in fact he becomes the leader of the Avengers.Ĭaptain America was the first Marvel Comics character who has appeared in the media outside comics with the release of the 1944 television series, Captain America. The character is portrayed as the alter ego of Steve Rogers, a frail young man that obtained an extraordinary force thanks to an experimental serum. In 1964, however, Stan Lee decided to revisit the character giving a new life to Captain America.Ĭaptain America wears a costume with stars and stripes that explicitly recalled the American flag and an indestructible shield that throws at the enemies. With the end of the war our superhero lost his popularity and the comic book was discontinued in 1950. Created by cartoonists Joe Simon and Jack Kirby in 1941.Ĭaptain America was designed as a patriotic supersoldier who fought during World War II, representing an America free and democratic that opposed to an imperialist and warlike Europe. Captain America is a fictional superhero who appears in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
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