Rector of AltSTU Andrey Markov − speaker of the press conference on the results of the "CASE-IN"

More than 4,700 schoolchildren, students and young professionals remotely participated in the qualifying stages of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN". Face-to-face events are scheduled for the end of summer and autumn of this year. This was announced by the organizers of the championship on Wednesday, May 27, at a press conference at the news agency. tass.

The new season of the CASE-IN championship, dedicated to the technological modernization of Russia, started in February and was switched to a remote format less than a month after the start due to anti-epidemic measures in the regions of Russia. Alexey Komissarov, CEO of ANO Russia – the Land of Opportunities, stressed that the CASE-IN championship has managed to remain an effective social elevator for industry youth in the new conditions.

"The championship team, as well as other projects of the Russia – Land of Opportunities platform, demonstrated flexibility by quickly switching to a remote format: the qualifying stages for all three championship leagues were held online. The new format made it possible to preserve all the opportunities for the contestants and, despite the difficult epidemiological situation in the country, ensured that future and young engineers from all regions of the country could participate in the competition. The qualifying stages of all three leagues of the championship brought together 4,718 people from different parts of the country this year," commented Alexey Komissarov.

The Student League became the largest and brought together 3,829 students from Russia and the CIS from 84 universities. Teams from 69 universities took part in the qualifying stages online, of which 25 universities participated in the championship for the first time. The league's teams competed in seven industry areas: geological exploration, mining, metallurgy, oil and gas, petrochemistry, digital atom, and electric power industry.

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.

Altai State Technical University named after I.I. Polzunov is the only regional university that has been participating in the championship since 2018. In the new season, AltSTU became one of the first universities forced to transfer a large-scale qualifying stage in the field of "Electric Power Industry" to a remote mode.

According to Andrey Markov, Rector of AltSTU named after I.I. Polzunov, the international engineering CASE-IN championship is one of the largest practice-oriented student competitions. It can rightfully be called a professional skills competition. Participation in it is a real opportunity for students to try their hand at the profession and demonstrate their engineering knowledge.

"There is a need for project-based specialists who are able to create their own cases in the learning process, focused on solving real production tasks. It is important not just to study for the sake of learning, but to form project-based learning at the university. That is why we will continue to actively support our students to participate in this championship," said the rector.

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