occasion begins at 5:30 PM

BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – With solely a pair weeks to go, the 2023 ‘Dancing for the Area Coast’ dancers are getting ready for his or her ultimate dance routines with their dance instructors for the charity occasion on June 3 at Florida Tech’s Clemente Heart.

With a offered out crowd able to pack contained in the Clemente Heart, one of many dancers on this 12 months’s occasion is retired U.S. Navy Captain and Astronaut Winston Scott.

Winston E. Scott is a retired U.S. Navy Captain and aviator. He entered Naval Aviation Officers Candidate Faculty in 1973. He accomplished flight coaching and was designated a naval aviator in 1974.

In 1980, Scott earned his Grasp of Science diploma in Aeronautical Engineering with Avionics.

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Throughout his Navy profession, Captain Scott served as a helicopter pilot with Helicopter Anti-Submarine Warfare Squadron Mild Thirty-Three at NAS North Island, CA flying the SH-2F helicopter. He later served a tour of responsibility as a fighter pilot with Fighter Squadron Eighty-4 at NAS Oceana, Virginia flying the F-14 Tomcat fighter/ interceptor. He subsequently served as a manufacturing check pilot and engineering director on the Naval Aviation Depot at NAS Jacksonville, FL.

Moreover, Scott served as a analysis growth check and analysis (RDTE) pilot and Deputy Director of the Tactical Plane Methods Division on the Naval Air Warfare Heart Plane Division in Warminster, PA.

As an RDTE pilot, Scott flew the F-14 Tomcat, the F/A-18 Hornet, and the A-7 Corsair plane. He has collected greater than 7,000 hours of flight time in additional than 25 completely different plane and greater than 200 shipboard landings.

Captain Scott was an affiliate teacher {of electrical} engineering at Florida A&M College and Florida Neighborhood School at Jacksonville.

Captain Scott was chosen to turn into an astronaut by NASA in 1992.

Serving as a mission specialist he flew two area shuttle missions throughout which he logged over 24 days in area; together with 3 spacewalks totaling over 19 hours. He has suggested elected officers on issues associated to area and aeronautics.

Just lately retired, Capt. Scott is a professor emeritus at The Florida Institute of Know-how in Melbourne. He holds the (retired) rank of professor of aeronautics within the School of Aeronautics and professor of music within the School of Psychology and liberal arts.

Capt. Scott belongs to the boards of administrators of a number of company and non-profit organizations. He enjoys an energetic public look schedule. Captain Scott’s ebook Reflections from Earth Orbit was revealed in 2005.

The 2023 version of Brevard County’s greatest social and philanthropic occasion of the 12 months will showcase featured dancers,Jessica Assam, Rachael Bassett, Jordin Chandler, Tom Neidert, Gina Niagara, Winston Scott and Megan Wright.

Generally known as the biggest fundraising occasion in Brevard County, Dancing for the Area Coast is a singular competitors and fundraiser that advantages worthy non-profit organizations on the Area Coast.

Final 12 months’s occasion raised greater than $400,000 for Habitat for Humanity of Brevard, Girls’s Heart of Brevard, Household Promise of Brevard and the US Regulation Enforcement Everlasting Flame.

This 12 months, Dancing for the Area Coast will elevate cash to learn the Kids’s Starvation Challenge, the Astronaut Memorial Basis, the Sheriff’s Pet Posse and the Brevard County Sheriff’s Workplace Charity, which was established to help Brevard County legislation enforcement officers and firefighters of their time of want.

“As Sheriff of Brevard County, it provides me nice pleasure for our company to host Dancing for the Area Coast,” mentioned Sheriff Wayne Ivey.

“Dancing for the Area Coast is an thrilling occasion that groups up native celebrities with dance professionals, in a contest to learn Brevard County nonprofit organizations. Every competitor dedicates their time and abilities taking dance classes and in addition diligently raises cash as a part of the competitors.

Bragging Rights On the Line

Every superstar dancer might be matched up with an expert dancer as they compete in a ballroom dance – and for bragging rights as the perfect dancer in Brevard.

On the night of the competitors, every dance pair will compete in a choreographed ballroom dance that might be scored by a panel of judges. In the course of the present, {couples} will earn scores based mostly on a number of technical talent elements, however the judges’ scores alone don’t resolve the dancer’s ultimate rating.

Main as much as the precise efficiency, the dancers can have already scored 60 p.c of their factors via their fundraising endeavors to learn needy charities.

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BRAGGING RIGHTS ON THE LINE

Every superstar dancer might be matched up with an expert dancer as they compete in a ballroom dance – and for bragging rights as the perfect dancer in Brevard.

On the night of the competitors, every dance pair will compete in a choreographed ballroom dance that might be scored by a panel of judges. In the course of the present, {couples} will earn scores based mostly on a number of technical talent elements, however the judges’ scores alone don’t resolve the dancer’s ultimate rating.

Main as much as the precise efficiency, the dancers can have already scored 60 p.c of their factors via their fundraising endeavors to learn needy charities.

SPONSORSHIPS, TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE

A number of company sponsorship ranges can be found, together with the Grease Sponsor for $25,000, the Flashdance Sponsor for $15,000, the Footloose Sponsor for $10,000, and the Saturday Evening Fever Sponsor for $5,000.

Tables can be found on the following ranges: Entrance Row VIP Dinner Desk, $5,000; Second Row VIP Dinner Desk, $2,500; Third Row Dinner Desk, $1,750; and Fourth Row Dinner Desk, $1,250. Particular person seats might be bought for $150 per particular person.

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Dancing For the Area Coast is introduced by the Brevard County Sheriff’s Workplace and sponsored by L3Harris, Area Coast Each day and Florida Tech.

For extra data or to make a donation within the title of your favourite dance pair, go online to DancingFortheSpaceCoast.com or name 321-505-8752.

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