Peyton Robertson

Peyton Robertson is an inventor, author, and scientist who has been featured on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, the ABC World News, and MSNBC. As of the date of this writing, he has five granted patents and nine additional patents pending and is the youngest member of the 2018 Forbes' 30 Under 30 Science List. He was named America's Top Young Scientist and was the youngest winner in the history of both the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge and the National STEM Education Award. His innovations to date include real-time retractable training wheels which allow a beginning rider to use a bicycle's handle bar controls to retract and release training wheels while riding, a redesigned sandless sandbag enabling users to more effectively combat and prevent salt water flooding, and the DropStick -- a convertible golf alignment stick designed to serve as both an on-range alignment aid and an in-round measurement device for the newly proposed USGA Rule 14.3 twenty inch free relief area. President Obama joked at the White House Fair "I can't do this as I have a conflict but if you can invest in Peyton you should do so now" At the Pebble Beach Pro Am Celebrity Challenge Peyton was paired with Clint Eastwood and PGA Professional Jimmy Walker. Together the three won $200,000 for science and math charities. He published an article in the Journal of Tropical Diseases & Public Health focused on the ways innate RNA interference renders mosquitos asymptomatic to arboviral infection and how their immunity may provide new approaches to combat mosquito borne illness.