Alexis Lewis is an American inventor, repeat science fair winner and public speaker.
She is best known for her advocacy for invention education and her humanitarian inventions. She is known to have given talks at the
White House
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,
Smithsonian,
SXSW
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, National Maker Faire, the 2018 Social Innovation Summit, and at TEDx events. Lewis also gained repeat standing as a finalist or winner in national and international science and invention fairs, including the
2012 Broadcom MASTERS Challenge. In the course of the Spark!Lab Invent It Challenge, Lewis won pro-bono patent counsel, and holds a patent on the "Rescue Travois", granted 2015 and has one pending, on the "Emergency Mask Pod".
Additionally, In 2019, Lewis served on the selection committee of Tool Foundry, a science tools accelerator, and in 2013, she served as a representative of LEGO Education at the 2013
FIRST World Championship.
Documentaries
Lewis has been featured in two mini-documentaries:
* 2015
Smithsonian mini-documentary "Teen Inventor Alexis Lewis on Youth and the Innovative Spirit"
* 2017 The Stem 10, a series of mini-documentaries featuring Alexis Lewis,
Jaden Smith and others
Advisory positions
* Tool Foundry Accelerator Selection Committee
*
Lifeboat Foundation
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** Education Board
** Engineering Board
** Futurists Board
** Media & Arts Board
** Space Settlement Board
Speaking engagements
TEDxAshburn, 2014* Smithsonian-USPTO Innovation Family Festival, 2015
Obama-White House address: National Week of Making, 2015TEDxUNC 2015* South By Southwest (SXSW), 2017
Social Innovation Summit, 2018
Awards and recognition
* 2012
Broadcom MASTERS
Broadcom MASTERS, a program of Society for Science, is a national science competition for U.S. middle school students. The Broadcom Foundation launched the competition in 2010 and pledged $6 million over the next 6 years. In 2014, approximately 6, ...
1st in Engineering
* 2012 Spark!Lab Invent It Challenge winner
* 2012 Finalist in
Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge
The 3M Young Scientist Challenge is a youth science and engineering competition administered by Discovery Education and 3M for middle school students in the United States, similar to the European Union Contest for Young Scientists. Students apply ...
* 2013 Iron Man 3 Inventor and Innovator Fair winner
* 2014 Spark!Lab Invent It Challenge winner
* 2014 Big Hero 6 Inventor and Innovator Fair winner
*2016 Scholastic Gold Key in Poetry
References
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21st-century American inventors
American women inventors
University of North Carolina alumni
Living people
1999 births