Bermuda will be represented next week at a world heritage conference in Scotland: locals can keep track of the student team on Facebook and Twitter via the St. George's Foundation website, starting Monday.

Berkeley Institute students Ashley Bento, Elizabeth Blankendal, Sudan Furbert and Janae Smith will travel to the Scottish village of New Lanark – a World Heritage Site – where they will present a workshop and report back to the Island, in real time, on the United Nationals Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) conference and youth summit at New Lanark Mill.

The student ambassadors will be accompanied by St. George's Foundation director of education Leondra Burchall, who said the Foundation hoped to use social networking media to promote and attract interest in history among students. Pictures, videos and messages from the Making Sense of Our Sites conferences can be viewed on www.stgeorgesfoundation.org.

Mrs. Burchall said: "St. George's was selected largely because of the success of our 'Bringing History to Life' youth summer workshops and our World Heritage Education programme, St. George's Day, a collaboration between the Foundation and the Ministry of Education." St. George's Day was held this year on May 25th with East End Primary and the Berkeley Institute.

True to its name, the St. George's Foundation's mission is to promote the heritage and history of Bermuda's Old Towne, which is also registered on the World Heritage List. Mrs. Burchall said the focus over the last year has been to expand the World Heritage Education component of the Foundation's work. The organisation is strengthening ties with the Ministry of Education, and hopes ultimately to get World Heritage Education included on the curricula of Bermuda's schools.

The workshop at New Lanark Mill will run from September 29 to October 1.