The CASE-IN Championship is in the Kommersant special project

Participants of the platform's projects "Russia is a land of opportunity" There are more than 4 million people. BUSINESS GUIDE talked to some of them about what their participation in the competition gave them, about the essence of their projects and the prospects for their development.

Nikolay Yarda, finalist of the main season of the CASE-IN championship in 2020:

— As a final-year graduate student at the Institute of Hydropower and Renewable Energy Sources of the National Research University of the Moscow Institute of Energy, I and my colleagues at the faculty took part in the Student League of the Engineering Championship "CASE-IN 2020" in the field of "Electric Power and Electrical Engineering". The case that we chose to solve was suggested by the staff PJSC RusHydro — the company that is the main partner of my institute and for me personally the most preferable option for future professional activity. Accordingly, the case assumed a solution to a problem relevant to the company — the use of composite materials at hydroelectric power plants.

The commission, including the heads of the structural divisions of PJSC RusHydro, highly appreciated our efforts, noting both the relevance of the issues raised, the originality of the proposed solution to the problem, and the depth of the project study; our team took the first place by a significant margin. After participating in the competition, I was offered an interview at the Corporate University of Hydropower (one of the branches of PJSC RusHydro), as a result of which, as part of the Program, young specialists were recruited as an expert at the Distance Learning and Simulator Training Center, where I work today in areas related to the training of operational personnel of hydropower facilities. Thus, participation in the "CASE-IN" contributed to the realization of my plans and helped me immediately after graduation to get a job in my specialty in accordance with what I am interested in and what I have devoted the last approximately ten years of my life to.

 Artem Korolev, founder and co-chairman of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN":

— The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship is a competition for solving engineering cases for schoolchildren, students and young specialists of fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes. The project is based on practice-oriented learning: participants solve cases that are given by the enterprises themselves. At each qualifying stage and at the final of the championship, participants are evaluated by experts from industry companies. Students can enroll in master's and postgraduate studies at 6 partner universities of the championship on preferential terms, and schoolchildren can receive from 1 to 10 additional USE points upon admission to 19 universities. And the most important thing is that the guys participating in the championship have the opportunity to get internships and internships in large industry companies and subsequently find a job and make a career. The brightest and most experienced participants of the championship become mentors of the teams, and after employment they themselves act as experts in the qualifying stages and finals. For example, Nikita Lipnitsky in St. Petersburg is our first champion from St. Petersburg Mining, now the chief project engineer of SPBGIPROSHACHT LLC, prepares teams for the qualifying stages and evaluates solutions as an expert. Power engineer Gleb Nesterenko from Novosibirsk became the champion from NSTU, now works as an engineer at the Energy Storage Systems company, transmits his experience to students and schoolchildren, and comes to competitions as an expert.

Source: Kommersant