Kindergarten "Minute Math" Whizzes from Tehiyah School Make News

Here's an opening sentence that made me want to keep reading the article:

"When they were in kindergarten together at in El Cerrito, Raphael Rosen was the only kid who could beat Brenden Millstein at the Minute Math game."

That comes from a story last week in jweekly.com (also known as j. the Jewish news weekly of Northern California, formerly the Jewish Bulletin) about the recent financial support awarded to the two former Minute Math champs, now age 27, for their fledgling company devoted to the battle against global warming.

Millstein and Rosen are Berkeley natives who landed at Harvard together and after separate paths for a spell reunited as business partners, last year forming Carbon Lighthouse, a company based in Palo Alto that "helps businesses, schools and nonprofits reduce their carbon footprint — at no cost to the client," according the jweekly.com article by Janet Silver Ghent.

The pair were awarded a $90,000 grant in June when they were named 2011 fellows by Echoing Green, an organization that supports social entrepreneurship in human rights, health and the environment. They received $80,000 from the Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and $8,000 from the Stanford Student Startup Accelerator, StartX, jweekly.com reported.