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Early Life
Alissa Chavez is the daughter of a childcare owner, she has always had a passion for working with children. The children she has worked with have been her inspiration behind her children's products. Alissa started her own company called Asilla LLC, assila is her name backwards inspired by Oprah Harpo. She started her company at age 14 after hearing the many tragic stories of children dying from being accidentally left in hot vehicles.

Invention
The invention by Alissa Chavez aims to reduce he chance that a child will die in an overheated car. Alissa has been working with engineers to perfect the hot seat and is raising money on a site names "Indiegogo" to develop a prototype so it can be manufactured. The hot seat consists of a pad that can sense if a child is in the car and communicated wirelessly with a fob attached to a parents key chain. If the parent walks more than 10 meters away without the child it will trigger, the fob, the parents smartphone through the app, and the car itself. Alissa wants to raise enough money on "Indiegogo" to build a prototype that manufacturers can use to mass produce the product. The reason Chavez wanted to create this product to help kids is because her mother runs a home daycare, so she was affected by stories about children dying in hot vehicles after being forgotten by accident. Alissa has started to work on her second product to be released in spring of 2019.

Accomplishments
Following the invention of the hot seat, Alissa gained a lot of media attention appearing on national and international TV and radio shows including, the Today Show, Ryan Seacrest Radio Show, NBC news, ABC news, Fox and Friends, Huffington Post, Washington Post, and USA Today. She was also named one of Glamour Magazines Woman of the year: Hometown heroes. She has also spoken at TEDX events, Microsoft digital camp, school events, and fundraisers. Alissa Chavez has multiple other accomplishments such as, Featured in book “Girls Think of Everything” by Catherine Thimmesh, Future Founders U.Pitch 3rd Place Winner, Future Founders U.Pitch Semifinalist, Univision Premios Juventud, 40 Under 40 Albuquerque Business First, University of New Mexico Rainforest Pitch Competition Winner, Gold American Business Award, Tech Startup of the Year, Silver American Business Award, Tech Startup of the Year, Hardware, Bronze American Business Award, Tech Startup of the Year, Software, New Mexico Small Business Success Story presented by Sandia National Labs, Innovation New Mexico Honoree, Glamour Magazine Women of the Year Tech Heroes, Glamour Magazine Women of the Year Hometown Heroes, Good Samaritan Award from Mayor Richard Berry of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Excellence Award” Albuquerque Public School District.

Education
With all of this creativity and problem solving through these inventions, Alissa Chavez also attended The University of New Mexico. Not only did she attend the university, but she graduated with a Bachelors degree of Arts - BA, Communication receiving this degree in May of 2020. She also received a masters degree in Public Administration in the year 2022. With these years of education, Alissa was also able to get 21 endorsements under Management and another 21 endorsements under Project Management to help get her inventions into mass production to produce as many as possible. She was also able to gain skills on strategic planning, Microsoft office, social media, photoshop, marketing, costumer service, patents, television, radio, advertising and lastly, graphic design.