Children of the Year: CASE-IN participants who made 2020 a little better

The year 2020 almost does not cause warm feelings among anyone, but this does not mean that humanity has sat idly by for twelve months and has not done anything good. It did. Moreover, the representatives of the youngest part of it, schoolchildren, despite the pandemic and the associated restrictions, continued to engage in science and other serious things and achieved absolutely childish results along the way. The KNIFE project tells about ten inventions and achievements of teenagers that we can all be proud of..

Tenth graders have developed a plan for an artificial island in Peter the Great Bay

Konstantin Vorotkov, Alexey Pleshkan and Maxim Makhankov from Kemerovo took part in the Case-In championship and came up with an artificial island project: they chose a place, worked out a construction plan and did not forget to take into account how the island would be connected to the mainland and what its inhabitants would need for a normal life. For example, how much fresh water, food, and electricity are needed, and how the garbage will be disposed of.

The tenth graders named their island "Doors of the East". According to the idea, it will be located in Peter the Great Bay and will become a cultural and scientific center, as well as a center for promoting startups and international cooperation between Russia and the countries of the Asia-Pacific region. Perhaps it will be so.

High school students from The Tomsk region has constructed a model of an underground gas tank for heating houses

This year, high school students Zhdan Golubev, Albina Pospelova and Evgeny Cheglokov from Seversk, Tomsk region, were thinking about how to heat houses in villages in winter if there is no gas there. In their opinion, the best solution is to install underground gas tanks. In fact, these are large gas cylinders buried in the ground.

The guys constructed a mock-up of a gas tank from improvised means, presented their project to specialists of fuel and energy companies and became bronze medalists of the school league of the Case-In championship. 

Full text of the article – on the website of the KNIFE project