(ATLANTA) -- Be Someone, Inc., a educational program is bringing a unique lunch and learn “Think Like A Champion” chess clinic to Arabia Mountain students . Using chess as a powerful means to teach about life and leadership, this clinic will arm its participants to use brains before bullets to navigate through life’s challenges. Think it out ,play it out, but don’t shoot it out and don’t fight it out .This clinic will teach problem-solving, leadership and conflict resolution skills that each young person will be able to take with them and use for a lifetime.

When: Tuesday December 15, 2009, 11:15 AM to 1:30 PM

Where: Arabia Mountain High School. 6610 Browns Mills Road Lithonia, GA 30038

Why: Using lunchtime to learn life skills, one move at a time.

Orrin Checkmate Hudson is the author of "One Move at a Time" and has been honored by everyone from the People Magazine to Toastmasters International for his innovative and successful work with disadvantaged youth. His most recent honor was July 4, 2009 in Philadelphia wining the World Open 10 minutes chess championship.

Orrin “Checkmate” Hudson, founder of Be Someone, is on a mission to help at-risk youth make better life decisions using a very unusual tool: a chessboard. Inspired to change the world from a tragic murder in 2001, Hudson to quit his job and used his life savings to found Be Someone, a not-for-profit organization designed to raise self-esteem while teaching responsibility and analytical thinking skills to at-risk children. Hudson travels the country mentoring children to value KASH – Knowledge, Attitude, Skills and Habits – over cash. His approach has had amazing success with increasing grade point averages, classroom participation and attendance through the mantra ‘Heads up, pants up, grades up and never give up.’

Participants will learn the following:

• The game of chess
• Leadership skills
• Problem-solving and conflict resolution skills
• The purpose of emotions and how to manage them productively
• How to maintain a positive outlook when facing life’s challenges
• Knowledge, Attitudes Skills & Habits… and much more

The lunch and learn think like a champion Tuesday December 15, 2009 11:15 AM to 1:30 PM at Arabia Mountain High School. 6610 Browns Mills Road Lithonia, GA 30038

For more information or to schedule an interview regarding this empowering program of change, please contact:

Janice Davis
Be Someone, Inc
Telephone: 678-526-0292

Email: info@besomeone.org

www.besomeone.org