Xyla Foxlin

Xyla Foxlin (born ) is an American YouTuber who uploads videos about her engineering projects.
==Personal life==
Xyla grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. She is half-Chinese. She has double-jointed shoulders, and can therefore lick her own elbow. Xyla has a pilot’s licence.
Xyla has a Mechatronics engineering degree and a minor in studio art from . She graduated in May 2019.
==Miss Greater Cleveland==
Xyla won Miss Greater Cleveland, and competed at . To demonstrate a skill, she attached an electric violin to a , and thereby “[did] a musical lightning talent thing.” Xyla wore her mother’s . In February 2019, she crowned her successor.
In February 2021, Xyla uploaded a video in which she sent the Miss America Crown into space.
==YouTube==
In January 2019, Xyla gave a TED talk, in which she discusses entrepreneurship and its link to mental health issues.
In June 2021, Xyla helped Derek Muller to create a wind powered car, which travelled faster than the wind, in order to win a $10,000 bet with Professor . Derek used the money to fund more STEM education videos.
==Organisations==
===Beauty and the Bolt===
Xyla is the founder of Beauty and the Bolt, a non-profit organisation serving girls in STEM, making, and the trades. In November 2020, she stepped down as its executive director. The name is a reference to .
In 2018, Xyla founded the organisation’s Princesses with Powertools calendar.
===Parihug===
At the age of nineteen, Xyla co-founded Parihug, a company producing internet connected cuddly toys, with an accelerometer and motor, which allow people to hug others from a distance. It was funded via Kickstarter. The prototype was created in 2015, at the 36-hour hacking competition. At the time, she was in a long-distance relationship, which inspired the idea. In 2019, the idea won the SXSW Tech Fest reader's choice award.
==Recognition==
In March 2021, a life-size status of Xyla was displayed at the , along with fifteen other statues. In March 2022, a similar statue was displayed at the .
==Subscriber milestones==
*70,000 subscribers: April 6, 2021
*90,000 subscribers: May 16, 2021
*100,000 subscribers: June 30, 2021
*200,000 subscribers: August 13, 2021
==References==
Category:Tech YouTubers
Category:American YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2020