{"id":5476,"date":"2018-11-01T00:19:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T04:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/?p=5476"},"modified":"2018-11-01T00:27:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T04:27:26","slug":"third-homecoming-benefits-community-college-charities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/third-homecoming-benefits-community-college-charities\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Homecoming Benefits Community, College, Charities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jarred Walker
\nIn Motion Staff Writer<\/span><\/p>\n

Choosing which events to attend for DSC\u2019s third annual Homecoming is like trying to choose which classes you are going to take for an upcoming semester.<\/p>\n

The amount and variety of events for this year\u2019s Homecoming was vast and the most unique to date.<\/p>\n

\"SimmonsAll the festivities started on Oct. 11, which was highlighted by the annual Mr. and Ms. Daytona State Pageant in the Hosseini Center. Three males and three females competed in a three-round variety\/talent show where they tried to earn the coveted title. In between rounds, the DSC Jazz Choir, which prepared for three weeks, performed for the audience while contestants got ready.<\/p>\n

Matt Evans \u2014 a current member of the choir \u2014 said, \u201cThey were clapping, giving standing ovations, just generally having a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Gabriel Hannans and Liz Dilger would win this year\u2019s titles as Mr. and Ms. Daytona State, respectively.<\/p>\n

On Oct. 12, students and alumni were catered \"Simmonsto an awards breakfast, networking workshop and a free movie night in the ECHO Plaza. Folks enjoyed a screening of \u201cAvengers: Infinity War,\u201d while feasting on pizza and s\u2019mores.<\/p>\n

Saturday, Oct.13, was the biggest day of Homecoming by far, with events running from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Included in these activities, was a car\/truck show, Culinary Boot Camp cooking workshop and cosmetology salon.<\/p>\n

All events were free and open to the public, but the cosmetology department earmarked all proceeds from donations to the Helping Hands charity, whose stated goals are to \u201crestore families, support caring relatives, connect children with loving homes and prepare adolescents for adulthood.\u201d The fee for the Culinary Boot Camp benefitted scholarships for culinary students.<\/p>\n

The cosmetology salon was opened to all ages. Dee Gay \u2014 Chair of Cosmetology and Barbering \u2014 said, \u201cIt\u2019s an exciting event. People get their haircuts, color and shampoo during the day by our students under the direction of an instructor. We also did the Mr. and Ms. Daytona State Pageant contestants\u2019 hair and makeup on Thursday.\u201d<\/p>\n

The car\/truck show was filled with rows of vintage, classic and new vehicles on display in the B parking lot close to the University of Central Florida building.<\/p>\n

Richard Waters brought his blue and white 1965 Shelby GT350 to the show for the second straight year and described the event as having \u201ca lot of versatility and everything you could want to see.\u201d His favorite car might not be so shocking\u2026\u00a0 it was his own 1965 Shelby.<\/p>\n

The Culinary Boot Camp lasted three hours and taught basic knife skills, as well as how to cook three unique dishes \u2014 a crab cocktail, specialty pasta and gourmet steak. The demonstration was hosted by the dean of DSC\u2019s Mori Hosseini College of Hospitality and Culinary Management, Chef Costa Magoulas. \u201cWe want to get people back into the working community and enhance their lives,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The end of the final Homecoming day was capped off by the women\u2019s and men\u2019s soccer games which were televised on WDSC-TV 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jarred Walker In Motion Staff Writer Choosing which events to attend for DSC\u2019s third annual Homecoming is like trying to choose which classes you are going to take for an upcoming semester. The amount and variety of events for this year\u2019s Homecoming was vast and the most unique to date. Continue reading Third Homecoming Benefits Community, College, Charities<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5476"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5485,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5476\/revisions\/5485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}