GAA Honors Two Entrepreneurs with Distinguished Young Alumni Awards
Posted Oct 12, 2016
The GAA recognized entrepreneurs in solar energy and education with its Distinguished Young Alumni Awards on Friday. The 2016 recipients are Jesse Moore ’01, founder of M-KOPA Solar, a solar-power business that provides hundreds of thousands of people in East Africa clean, reliable energy; and Preston Smith ’01, co-founder and CEO of Rocketship Education.
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