Be Someone Founder Orrin ‘Checkmate’ Hudson Brings His Life-Size Chess Board to Georgia World Congress Center

     

    Chess champion brings unique use of chess to teach life’s lessons to Atlanta youth at For Sisters Only event
    ATLANTA, Sept. 15, 2011 — This weekend, Saturday, September 17 and Sunday, September 18, at FSO-20 (http://v103.radio.com/fso20/), Be Someone founder Orrin “Checkmate&#…

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    PCI Education Introduces LIFT Series of Intervention Programs

     

    Company Marks 20th Anniversary with Debut of Response to Intervention Line
    SAN ANTONIO, April 25, 2011 — PCI Education, the premier provider of resources for students with special needs, introduces LIFT, a new line of intensive intervention programs targeted to middle and high school students…

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    New Anti-Diet Book for Women Promotes Using Corporate Strategies to Succeed

     

    BURLINGAME, Calif., Feb. 28, 2011 — Rosemary Hershey, author of Diet-Bailout, pierces the fallacy of diet programs that target food as the culprit to promote their diet, their pills, their treatments, as the magic bullet.
    Nonsense, says Hershey, who knows from experience that it’s not ab…

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    Award Winning Educational Hip Hop Program Killed by Budget Cuts

     

    One of the nation’s first programs to bring full-time Hip Hop education to high school students seeks new partners after financial crisis terminates its 5-year run
    LOS ANGELES, Feb. 22, 2011 — Since 2006, The Global Awareness through Hip Hop Culture program has been at the forefront of legi…

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    Orrin ‘Checkmate’ Hudson’s National Tour Goes to Three Pennsylvania School Districts to Inspire Kids to Make the Right Moves … Heads Up, Pants Up, Grades Up and Never Give Up!

     

    JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Nov. 5, 2009 — International chess champion, author, and motivational speaker Orrin Hudson is bringing his 50-state motivational chess and life lesson tour to Johnstown, Pennsylvania, in order to teach 5,100 students about chess, critical thinking skills, and self-confiden…

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    ‘Be Someone’ Founder Orrin ‘Checkmate’ Hudson Launches 50-State Tour to Teach Youth How to Make the Right Moves

     

    ATLANTA, March 19, 2009 — Orrin “Checkmate” Hudson, Founder and Executive Director of the non-profit organization Be Someone, is embarking on a nationwide tour to show America’s at-risk youth how to make better decisions in school and in life. His tool of choice: a chessboar…

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