The CASE-IN Engineering Championship gathered 4,700 participants

The new season of the championship is dedicated to the technological modernization of Russia. It started in February and was switched to a remote format less than a month later.

- The qualifying stages for all three leagues of the championship were held online. The new format, despite the difficult epidemiological situation in the country, made the competition accessible to future and young engineers from all regions. The qualifying stages of all three leagues of the championship brought together 4,718 people from different parts of the country this year," said Alexey Komissarov, General Director of ANO Russia − Land of Opportunities.

Schoolchildren, students, and young professionals solved real engineering cases offered to them by leading technology companies. For example, Anton Oreshin, Kirill Sysoev and Lena Gorodetskaya, students of the Samara Technical Lyceum, have developed a model of a flying wind turbine.

Students of grades 6-7, Alexander Esipov, Stepan Bolshakov, Ilya Gurkin from Kemerovo created a smart helmet to monitor the physical condition of the worker and communicate with the dispatcher.

Anton Suslov, a ninth-grader from Lyceum No. 2 in Irkutsk, together with his team developed solutions for plastic collection and sorting in the Irkutsk region.

Nikita Purshev, a 10th grade student at school No. 28 in Pyatigorsk, made a wind turbine for operation in ventilation pipes.

The student league teams competed in seven industry areas: geological exploration, mining, metallurgy, oil and gas, petrochemistry, digital atom, and electric power industry.

- The online format allowed students of 84 universities to be involved in solving engineering problems. We have organized additional qualifying stages for students in the fields of Metallurgy and Digital Atom, and for the second year in a row we will hold an Autumn Cup for schoolchildren and students of young professionals. We plan that 10,000 schoolchildren, students and young professionals will participate in the championship by the end of the year," said Artyom Korolev, co-chairman of the organizing committee of the CASE-IN International Engineering Championship.

Among the students' tasks: improving the efficiency of diamond mining, new ways of processing secondary vanadium-containing raw materials, solving problems of production and transportation of liquefied natural gas, recycling plastic, developing energy systems in the CIS and the Baltic States, smart repairs for CNC machines, reducing gas pollution in quarries, modernizing the Russian electric grid, increasing the service life of hydropower equipment.

Ksenia Kolesnikova

A source: Rossiyskaya Gazeta