“Henry Ford” Vocational High School
The organization is public and represents a vocational school from 8th to 12th grade with extended study of English and a second foreign language, German and Russian, in two professional areas: transport and energy. The school is the largest vocational school in the country, with 1,300 students studying in it in the 2022/2023 school year in the following 11 specialties: Automotive technology, Automotive mechatronics, Electric vehicles, Electrical equipment for electric vehicles for urban transport, Electrical equipment for lifting and elevator technology, Industrial electronics, Operation of road transport, Aircraft repair, Heating technology -
heat, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration, Renewable energy sources and Gas technology. It was founded 60 years ago, as the Model Technical College of Energy "Wilhelm Pieck". The school established itself as one of the leading technical schools in the capital. It was one of the most renewed technical institutions.
What are the organisation's activities in the field of this application?
The school has a STEM center for interactive natural science lessons, with highly technologically equipped classrooms for modular performances and demonstrations of interactive lessons with 3D technologies. The school also has a laboratory building that houses workshops, laboratories and several learning centers: the Learning Center for Electric Vehicles, the Ford Learning Center, the Mercedes Learning Center, the Robert Bosch Learning Center, the Vaillant Learning Center". "Amax Gas" Learning Center and others, significant for the education of students from both fields of transport and energy. Bulgarian school is very innovative in offering to students occasion to practice on the newest technologies in their qualification domains. They introduced electric cars technologies in their qualifications offer and renewable energy sources for the energetic qualification domain.
