Schoolchildren from Irkutsk and Cheremkhov participate in the final of the Case-In championship

Students of Irkutsk Lyceum No. 2 Anton Suslov, Arkady Mamontov and Alexander Ganiev, as well as students of Cheremkhovsky Lyceum Igor Kasimov, Anastasia Solopova and Victoria Stepanova will take part in the online finals of the school league of the International Engineering Case-In Championship. In the qualifying stage, students developed solutions for collecting plastic for subsequent recycling, according to the Reliable Shift Foundation. 

In the final, which will be held online, the teams will have to defend the solutions of the case "The cycle of hydrocarbons in everyday life and industry", dedicated to the collection and recycling of waste from various plastic materials. 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.

The participants came up with a number of measures to draw public attention to responsible consumption, developed a memo on the proper disposal of garbage and mock-ups of posters for social advertising, the design of baskets for separate garbage collection.

The winners and prize-winners of the final of the school Case—In league will receive from 1 to 10 additional USE points upon admission to 19 partner universities of the championship, and the champions will be able to make an educational trip to Tobolsk at Russia's largest petrochemical complex ZapSibNeftekhim.

A source: Siberian news