Four Bermudian students will embark on the adventure of a lifetime when head off to different United World Colleges in exotic parts of the world after receiving scholarship awards this summer.

Seventeen year old Josue Palos, who graduated from CedarBridge Academy last month, and Whitnii Levon, Allan Steynor and Gareth Williams, all of whom are 17 and were students at Warwick Academy, will study for the International Baccalaureate in schools as far-flung as Wales, Hong Kong, New Mexico and India after they received their awards from Governor John Vereker at Government House.

Josue, who will spend the next two years at Armand Hammer United World College of the American West in New Mexico, and will be the first CedarBridge student to go to a United World college, said: "I'm excited to be chosen and I'm sure I'll be back to CedarBridge tell others about what it's like.

"I'm venturing off to do something different, something new. You can read about people from different cultures but when you talk to people from the countries it's a little different."

Whitnii, who will leave for Li Po Chun in Hong Kong this September, said: "I'm excited. I always wanted to go to school in a more exotic location and Hong Kong is about as exotic as it gets. Getting culture shock is the whole point of going to Hong Kong in the first place."

Gareth, who will spend the next two years at Mahindra school in India, said: "It's an honour to be chosen to represent Bermuda. Its a new adventure and I'm ready for it."

Allan, who will be following in his dad's footsteps when he starts at Atlantic College in Wales this September, said: "I'm excited because I've never been to Europe.

"It's something completely new and different. It's going to be amazing meeting people from all over the world. It's going to be hard work too but it'll pay off and I should come out with a great education."