Fellow:Dallaselleman

Dallas Elleman is a 35 year old late-(and fierce)-blooming Junior studying Engineering  Physics, Robotics, and Innovation/Entrepreneurship at The University of Tulsa in Oklahoma. His patchwork quilt of professional experience is mostly composed of manual labor and construction work, recently a decade and a half of swimming with snakes, drilling steel, clawing through mud, hacking at roots, prying at boulders, crawling across spider-infested fiberglass hellscapes (attics in the Oklahoma summer), climbing frozen poles, negotiating with the angry, the betrayed and the confused, and generally covered in sweat and dirt as a marine construction and repair crew leader for Rayco Marinas/North American Marine Industries, a water meter worker for the City of Tulsa, and a field tech (cable guy) for Cox Communications. During a summer 2014 10-week internship at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, Dallas helped a multidisciplinary team design microfluidic "Lab On A Chip" tools to detect life on other planets. He is 2-time finalist in the National Science Foundation's Community College Innovation Challenge, and has been an invited panelist at National Science Foundation and National Science Board meetings and events.

In the future, Dallas will work as part of an engineering collective with creative, courageous people in Tulsa, Oklahoma and around the world to solve problems related to inequality, education, and living up to/extending our human potential. Dallas's company, Flexbee, manufactures customized promotional flying discs.

Dallas is also a proud father of 3 beautiful, awesome girls. Dallas has gained so many amazing experiences and opportunities from just saying ‘Yes’ and putting his neck out that he has difficult time saying ‘No,’ and frequently overcommits, although he hustles and delivers on his promises, it's not always a walk in the park. Dallas believes that each one of us has enormous power to help change the world in huge and positive ways, and that therefore, each of us should.

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NOVA Fellowship

Oklahoma Young Entrepreneur Awards

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