Mergenthaler Vocational–Technical High School, commonly referred to as Mervo, is a public high school and trade school in Baltimore, Maryland. Mervo opened in 1953 as a vocational-technical school

Vocational-technical school

A vocational-technical school, often called a vo-tech school, is a high school in the United States and Canada designed to bring vocational and technical training to its students. Such skills become highly valuable to students entering into a vocational or technical field without first obtaining...

, and is named after Ottmar Mergenthaler

Ottmar Mergenthaler

Ottmar Mergenthaler was an inventor who has been called a second Gutenberg because of his invention of the Linotype machine, the first device that could easily and quickly set complete lines of type for use in printing presses...

. The school, according to its website, uses its curriculum to "educate students to function in an industrial and challenging technological society." The trades carried at Mervo are Automotive Technology, Accounting, Commercial Baking, Food Service, Child Care, Business Administration, Computer Programming, Cosmetology, Barbering, Masonry, Cabinet Making, Printing, Drafting, Electrical Construction, Plumbing, Welding, Machine Tool Technology and Criminal Justice (added during the 2007–2008 school year).