Andrew Yu
Andrew is an entrepreneur and student from the Greater Houston Area. He’s dedicated to spreading entrepreneurship education, founding The DICE Initiative to encourage middle-class high-schoolers to make use of their resources through entrepreneurship. In high school, he also served as Regional Director for LaunchX Clubs (https://www.launchxclubs.org/) and worked on the student board for the Diamond Challenge for High School Entrepreneurs (https://diamondchallenge.org/), interacting with high school entrepreneurs all around the globe. He became passionate about protecting the environment through his years in scouting, and he has been writing a book on how new startups can make a positive environmental impact regardless of their sector. Andrew is a first-year at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania planning to concentrate in Innovation & Entrepreneurship and Environmental Policy & Management.
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