Lexi Porras
alexcias.porras@gmail.com
Bio
Lexi Porras is a graphic designer at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is majoring in Design and Visual Communication and will be graduating in Fall 2021. She was born and raised in Illinois north of Chicago before making her way north to Milwaukee. Currently she is exploring internship opportunities to determine career ideas. Her career interests are in packaging design as well as self-teaching hand lettering. Lexi enjoys the creative aspect of those designs. Beyond digital design she likes to get her hands dirty in the ceramic rooms. Creating beyond the computer boosts her creativity. She has always had a creative side since she was young. She would take Archie comics and redraw the characters. She enjoys to remodel old furniture and making it new. Her design zone is within Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign with a few skills in Blender and Unity.
Design Team
Team Person 1:
Mentor: Kate Nelson
Team Person 2:
Design Student: Leksi Craig
Team Person 3:
User Testing: Aden LaManna
High School & Notable Teachers
Grayslake North High School
Description
Seedlings is a company that connects children with a healthier lifestyle. I created a program that partners with school districts to bring healthy eating into the classrooms. Seedlings want to teach kids about the importance of growing your own food and the positive impacts of healthy eating. Over 1 in 5 students are eligible for reduced lunches and many rely on the schools for their daily meals. They should be provided with healthy meals. Families on food stamps or low income cannot afford to buy fruits and vegetables so many of these kids do not know the standard healthy eating. This leads to obesity which is already high in the United States. Seedlings will introduce healthy eating through school gardens and greenhouses. These will be partnered with teachers and be incorporated into their daily lessons while also given the opportunity to try these foods that could not be offered at home. Students will learn about community team building while working on these plants, They will learn about composting and how their leftover waste will go back into the ground and help nourish new plants. With the seeds these little seedlings will grow with their produce.
Mission
Lowering obesity rates in the United States through growing fruit and vegetables.
Vision
With gardens and greenhouses on school grounds children will be engulfed in the environment of healthy eating and sustainability.
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