Students from Kelly College participated in an educational video conference linking them with the USA and Iraq on Monday. The project connected the West Devon college with Shattuck-St Mary?s School in Faribault, Minnesota, and to Baghdad thanks to the Learning Lab South-West at Kelly. Headmaster Mark Steed said the project showed how modern technologies could bring people together around the world. ?Our sixth form students have been working since September with pupils from Shattock St-Mary?s school in Minnesota on a project framing a joint declaration on the Rights of Man and a joint law on terrorism. ?The link-up with Baghdad is part of this project and an exciting, unique opportunity to develop their own ideas about some of the greatest issues that face the world today. Video conferencing has enabled us to bring world issues literally into the classroom.? This unique opportunity is a first-ever worldwide educational video conference event for two schools, in two different countries, to jointly video conference to a third nation at war. For two hours the students engaged in academic study on a declaration of the Rights of Man for the 21st century versus the need for security in society, by directly interacting with a member of the British Armed Forces, a Minnesota National Guard officer and an Iraqi citizen in Baghdad.