Komsomolsk schoolchildren qualified for the finals of the international engineering CASE-IN competition

The online final of the school league of the VIII International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", which is part of the presidential platform "Russia - the land of Opportunities", will be held on June 10. A team of high school students from Komsomolsk-on-Amur will also take part in it. The guys called themselves "Bypassing the mountain", they represent Lyceum No. 1. 

Pupils  The solutions of the case "The circulation of hydrocarbons in everyday life and industry" will be defended. They will come up with measures to draw attention to the problem of responsible consumption; they will develop a memo on the proper disposal and recycling of garbage and poster layouts for social advertising focused on environmental protection.;  They will design separate waste collection baskets for homes and offices.

"To get to the finals of the School League, team captain Venedikt Gorelov, Ilya Zherenkov, Artyom Melnichenko and Tatiana Chizhova overcame the qualifying stage, where they developed solutions for collecting plastic in Russian cities for its subsequent processing," the press service of the competition organizers noted.

Of the 155 participating teams in the qualifying stage, only 14 became finalists. They represent 10 cities: Guy, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Komsomolsk–on–Amur, Novosibirsk, Novocheboksarsk, Svobodny, Stavropol, Tomsk and Cheremkhovo.

The ideas of the finalists will also be evaluated online by experts from industry companies and organizations, including SIBUR, a branch of PJSC RusHydro, as well as teachers from Irkutsk National Research Technical University and Tyumen Industrial University and representatives of the NGO "Russia is a land of Opportunity."

— The path of an engineer should start from school. To build this continuous path, SIBUR is a partner of the CASE-IN championship as part of the Formula for Good Deeds social investment program. We want to show the scale of the tasks that the company is solving, and we hope to involve more and more students in engineering activities," says Artur Kovin, chief expert at the implementation of technological modeling at SIBUR.

To participate in the final, the students spent 10 days working on ideas for collecting and sorting plastic waste in the conditional special economic zone in Tobolsk, paying special attention to the environmental situation.

During the final, participants will also receive a master class "Personal Effectiveness Life Hacks: Use your phone effectively" and a quiz "Brain-case" from the Association of Trainers of the Russian Youth Union.

Alexey Komissarov, CEO of ANO Russia – Land of Opportunities, will make a motivating address to schoolchildren, and Oksana Mustafina, SIBUR's brand development, recruitment and HR communications expert, will hold a meeting on "How talent can find itself in the industrial sector."

— The School League competitions are designed to teach high school students how to work in a team, search and analyze information, generate and present ideas. One of the main objectives of this season's CASE-IN is to instill in the minds of schoolchildren the belief in the need for responsible consumption and respect for nature," comments Artyom Korolev, founder and co−chairman of the Organizing Committee of the CASE−IN Championship.

The winners and prize-winners of the final of the School League will receive additional USE points, and will also be able to make an educational trip to Tobolsk to the largest petrochemical plant ZapSibNeftekhim.

A source: DVHAB.RU