13 Facts About Xyla Foxlin

Xyla Foxlin is an American engineer, entrepreneur and YouTuber.

Xyla Foxlin served as Executive Director for 501-c non-profit Beauty and the Bolt which aims to lower the barrier to entry for women and minorities in STEM fields.

Xyla Foxlin grew up in the Boston area and attended Lexington High School.

Xyla Foxlin was captain of the school's robotics team in her junior and senior years.

Xyla Foxlin attended Case Western Reserve University and majored in mechanical and aerospace engineering where she was described in a magazine as a "robotics whiz kid".

Xyla Foxlin was president of the college's robotics mining team.

In 2017 when she was doxxed and harassed by an anonymous Twitter follower, she subpoenaed Twitter to find the identity of her harasser; it turned out she was a woman and fellow robotics student that Xyla Foxlin had once mentored.

In 2018, Xyla Foxlin was named as one of Crain's Cleveland Business's most Notable Women in Technology.

Xyla Foxlin invented a huggable teddy bear called Parihug which features two matching bears; each bear is "stuffed with wireless and Bluetooth technology" so that when it is hugged, it sends a signal to its twin over the Internet so that a person with the other bear will feel it vibrate softly and get a message about the hug.

Xyla Foxlin won the university's Spartan Challenge Entrepreneurial Competition in its development.

Xyla Foxlin launched a tiara into space using weather balloon technology, with cameras on the balloon to record the flight and send back data to her controller.

Xyla Foxlin built a kayak out of clear fiberglass and lit it internally with a plethora of LED colored lights, so her craft, which she nicknamed Rainbowt, lights up on the water even at night.

In 2021, Xyla Foxlin designed a bulletproof gown and then shot bullets at the gown to see if the kevlar materials in the gown were effective at stopping the bullets.