"CASE-IN" is a great chance to prove yourself!

Veronika Lebedeva, a master's student at the Faculty of Energy of YURSPU (NPI), reached the final of the CASE-IN championship as part of the team.

In the new season of the championship, the Student League, thanks to the online format, brought together a record number of participants - 3,829 students from 84 universities in Russia and the CIS instead of the planned 57! The Student League teams competed in seven industry areas: geological exploration, mining, metallurgy, oil and gas, petrochemistry, digital atom, and electric power industry.

Students were asked to find their own approaches to solving production problems, including: improving the efficiency of diamond mining operations, new ways of processing secondary vanadium-containing raw materials, solving problems of production and transportation of liquefied natural gas, plastic recycling, development of energy systems in the CIS and the Baltic States, smart repairs for CNC machines, reducing gas pollution in quarries, modernization of the Russian electric grid, increasing the service life of hydropower equipment.

Our Veronika Lebedeva was among the participants of this prestigious student professional skills competition. She became interested in energy back in high school, where she studied at a specialized energy group. Veronica and her team are participating in the Student League Championship for the third year in a row and are happy to reach the finals.

- "CASE-IN" is a great chance to prove yourself to future employers. The knowledge and experience gained gave me an advantage when applying to the specialized master's degree program of JSC SO UES, now we plan to have an excellent performance by our team in the final of the CASE−IN, and with the completion of the Master's degree and the System Operator program, successful employment," Veronika shared her plans.

The best participants of the Student League will receive benefits for admission to master's and postgraduate studies at six partner universities of the championship, as well as internships and internships at fuel and energy complex and MSC enterprises, including: United Energy System System Operator, Novatek, Sibur, Tatneft, Alrosa, Rosatom, Rushydro, FGC UES and others.

Participation in the CASE-IN championship is a real opportunity for students to try their hand at the profession, demonstrate engineering knowledge and establish themselves as a project plan specialist who is able to create their own cases focused on solving real production problems while still a student.

Full-time events of the championship are scheduled for the end of summer and autumn of this year.

Itochnik: YURSPU (NPI) named after M.I.Platov