Semi-finalists of the CASE-IN championship have been determined at St. Petersburg Polytechnic University

 The qualifying stage of the IX International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", which is part of the presidential platform "Russia - the land of Opportunities", was held in St. Petersburg. The project is being implemented using a grant from the President of the Russian Federation for the development of civil society.

The championship is held on the basis of 70 universities in Russia and the CIS countries. Teams of future metallurgists and mining engineers competed at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.

Students defended case solutions - practical tasks set by CASE-IN partners - leading companies of the fuel and energy complex and the Moscow Energy Complex of Russia. All the cases are devoted to the topic of "Sustainable development", and the participants of the competition were given only 10 days to decide.

The power engineers solved the problem from FGC UES PJSC. The company invited the students to find the use of digital technologies in the development of a distribution network company.

The ideas of the participants were evaluated by industry experts - specialists of JSC STC UES Emergency Management, a branch of JSC SO UES ODU of the North-West, a branch of PJSC FGC UES of the MES of the North-West, PJSC IDGC of the North-West and teachers of SPbPU.

The first among the power engineers were the guests of the qualifying stage - the team of Petrozavodsk State University "Karelian Protection": Sergey Pimenov, Elizaveta Kuchenkova, Sergey Nosov and Anastasia Simanova.

"Students of our university are taking part in the CASE-IN championship for the second time. The topic of the case concerns our immediate future and will allow us to expand opportunities both in the field of electric power industry and in many other areas., - says team captain Sergey Pimenov, - solving the case develops teamwork and implies more creative work: it allows you to move away from classical teach-and-solve training, developing critical thinking."

In second place is The 4Watts team: team captain Daria Voznesenskaya, Ivan Degtyarev, Ilya Lopyrev and Pavel Savlov.

The bronze medal went to the Sinus Rhythm team. The team members are team captain Igor Gotoullin, Nikita Gavrilov, Denis Mikhailov and Yulia Ortikova.

On the same day, future builders and design engineers competed. On the instructions of JSC NIPIGAZ, they evaluated the introduction of digital technologies for the plant for the production of liquefied natural gas under construction in permafrost conditions in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District.

The expert commission included representatives of JSC NIPIGAZ and teachers of SPbPU.

The winner of the stage was the Engineering Bureau team: team captain Alina Spitskaya, Ksenia Ausheva, Andrey Gorshkov and Elina Rubanova.

Alina Spitskaya shares her impressions:

"At first glance, it may seem that most digital technologies have already been implemented and are actively used at all stages of construction and production, so offering something innovative seems to be a difficult task. Thus, the most difficult stage was to check the relevance of our proposed solution, how new the topic of using multifunctional unmanned aerial vehicles is. It was also interesting for us to get acquainted with the values of one of the largest companies in the oil and gas industry, to learn its advantages over other market participants."

"At the moment, it seems difficult to build fully automatic oil production management in the foreseeable future, but at the same time, the development of programs to reduce the human factor in the processes of managing the life cycle of deposits and increase the level of safety in production is one of the most pressing topics of the digitalization of industry.", - says the captain of the winners.

The second place to the semifinals was given to the Flash-ka team: team captain Alexey Razumov, Anastasia Alipova and Lyudmila Alekseeva.

The bronze medalists were "Gentlemen": Victoria Verbnikova (team captain), Alexander Vishnyakov, Vadim Golubev and Roman Kireev.

The next test for the two best teams in each industry area will be the semi-finals, where they will compete with participants from other universities in the Northwestern Federal District, and the winners of the semi-finals will travel to Moscow in May for a decisive meeting.

In 2021, 17 leading industry companies are partners of the CASE-IN championship: JSC SO UES, JSC ALROSA, Rosatom State Corporation, PJSC RusHydro, PJSC FGC UES, LLC SIBUR, PJSC Tatneft, JSC NIPIGAZ, Siberian Generating Company LLC, IBM Montan LLC, Siberian Anthracite JSC, Mycromine Rus LLC, Raspadskaya Coal Company LLC, Prosoft Systems LLC, Yakutsk Fuel and Energy Company PJSC, EvrazHolding LLC, Krastsvetmet OJSC.

The partners will offer internships, internships and employment to the best participants of the championship, and 20 partner universities of the championship will provide benefits for students upon admission to graduate and postgraduate studies.

The championship is implemented within the framework of the federal project "Social elevators for everyone" of the national project "Education".

Information help.

The autonomous non–profit organization "Russia - the Land of Opportunities" was created on the initiative of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The key objectives of the organization are to create conditions for increasing social mobility, ensuring personal and professional self-realization of citizens, as well as creating effective social elevators in Russia. The Supervisory Board of ANO "Russia – the Land of Opportunities" is headed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

ANO "Russia – the land of opportunities" is developing a platform of the same name, which unites 26 projects: the management competition "Leaders of Russia", the competition "Leaders of Russia. Politics", student Olympiad "I am a professional", international competition "My first business", All–Russian competition "Big Change", All-Russian project "Career Time", All-Russian competition "Volunteer of Russia", project "TopBLOG", project "Professional training 2.0", project "Cultural code", festival "Russian student Spring", the All–Russian competition "Masters of Hospitality", "Grant competition for youth initiatives", the competition "Digital Breakthrough", the professional competition "Teacher of the Future", the competition "The best social project of the year", the All-Russian project "RDS - Territory of self-government", the competition for professional skills among people with disabilities "Abilimpix", the All–Russian youth management Cup "Manage!", the Russian National Award "Student of the Year", the movement "Young Professionals" (WorldSkills Russia), the charity project "Dream with me", the All-Russian competition "League of Counselors", the competition "My country is my Russia", the international engineering championship "CASE-IN", "Olympiad of the NTI Circle Movement.Junior" and "Competition of Political Scientists" (held jointly with EISI).

As part of the activities of the NGO "Russia – the Land of Opportunities", an educational center, the Senezh Management Workshop, was established in February 2019. It is designed to form a generation of active citizens, including competent civil servants who have received modern professional training and are united by the value of responsible service to the country and society.

The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship is an international competition system for solving engineering cases among schoolchildren, students and young specialists in the fuel and energy and mineral resource industries. The championship is being implemented in accordance with the Action Plan aimed at popularizing the working and engineering professions, approved in 2015.

The organizers of the Championship are the Reliable Change Foundation, the Non-profit Partnership Youth Forum of Mining Leaders, ANO Russia – Land of Opportunities and AstraLogica LLC. The co-organizer of the Electric Power Industry direction of the CASE–IN Student League is the Russian National Committee of the International Council for Large High Voltage Electrical Systems, the Interregional Public Organization Academy of Mining Sciences is the co-organizer of the Mining and Geological Exploration directions, and the Center for Assistance to Young Specialists is the co-organizer of the League of Young Specialists.".

The national partners of the championship are the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, as well as the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh), the Agency for Strategic Initiatives to Promote New Projects and the Federal State Budgetary Institution Center for Assistance to Young Professionals.

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