Prince Edward launches youth award program in Baltimore

Baltimore City students received a royal visit on Wednesday from Prince Edward. Prince Edward, the Duke of Edinburgh, visited Western High School's temporary school building in Northwest Baltimore to launch the Duke of Edinburgh's International Award program in Baltimore City Public Schools. Around 70 students from seven city schools — including Western, the Academy for College and Career Exploration, Baltimore City College, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, Carver Vocational-Technical High School, Forest Park High School and Frederick Douglass High School — will participate in the program. Western, the nation's oldest all-girls public high school, hosted the royal visit. "I think this program will definitely expose a lot of our students to opportunities that they never knew were possible and just thinking beyond what they've seen here in their city," said Taylor Fraling-Taylor, a Western senior who is also the student commissioner for City Schools.