Fighting food insecurity with...bugs?
A few weeks after starting his MBA at 捆绑SM社区, Mohammed Ashour, MSc鈥�11, MBA鈥�19 received an email announcing the Hult Prize 鈥� an annual, year-long competition that challenges university-level students to solve a pressing social issue. Teaming up with Gabe Mott (MBA鈥�14), Ashour recruited three other colleagues from their MBA cohort: Shobhita Soor (BSc鈥�10, BCL/LLB鈥�15, MBA鈥�15), Jesse Pearlstein (MBA鈥�14), and Zev Thompson (MBA鈥�14). At the close of the year-long competition, the 捆绑SM社区 team beat out more than 10,000 applicants to win the million-dollar top prize in September 2013. Flash forward almost 10 years and Aspire Food Group now runs a fully automated, 11-storey cricket production and processing facility in London, Ontario.
Photo: Aspire Food Group co-founders Mohammed Ashour and Gabe Mott (Courtesy: Aspire Food Group)
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