83 MGRI students took part in the qualifying stage of the CASE-IN championship

On March 17, the university hosted the qualifying stage of the Student League of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" in the areas of "Geological Exploration", "Mining" and "Oil and Gas business". 83 MGRI students took part in it - 22 teams, 15 of them performed in the face-to-face format.

The participants of each direction were offered cases dedicated to the single theme of the championship - "Sustainable development". The teams were given 10 days to develop technological solutions and defended their projects before an expert jury on March 17.

The participating mining teams are: SHPS, Silver Stone, Zigvires, RosGorMGRI, Usy Ordzhonikidze.

Participating teams in the field of "Oil and Gas business": BusyModern, Drill Team, Gas v pol, Oil World, OilCom, Barrel of Oil, Oil magnates.

Participating teams in the Geological Exploration direction: Champions Way, GeoStars, Geocool, Give me a pipe, Iskra, Kurpirchupsha, Spreustein, Yrka, Vostochny Express, GEO Team.

The jury consisted of 14 leading experts from MGRI: in the field of "Oil and gas business" - senior lecturer Diana Kudryavtseva, teachers Batyr Ovezov, Ksenia Shcherbakova and Anastasia Syrchina; in the field of "Mining" - Director of the Engineering Center Henri Skripka, Professor Evgeny Komarov, associate professors Alexander Vilmis and Dmitry Neguritsa, senior lecturer Elena Dyachenko; in Professors Alexander Vercheba, Pyotr Ignatov and Viktor Dyakonov, Associate Professors Yuri Zabaykin and Natalia Pogrebis are in the field of Geological Exploration.

In addition, case solutions from MGRI teams were evaluated by representatives of industry companies such as ALROSA, TatNIPIneft, and YATEK. 

At the opening ceremony, the participants were greeted by Acting Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs Maria Frolova, Acting Vice-Rector for Innovation and Youth Policy Tatiana Rusyaeva, CEO of Mycromine Rus LLC Boris Kurtsev and Chief Specialist of the Department of Personnel Planning and Development of PJSC YATEK Eleonora Usmanova. 

"Future specialists of the geological exploration, mining and oil and gas industries, talented students of our university who are interested in their own development and the development of the country, presented their work to the experts at the championship. It is important that the winners will have the opportunity to complete internships in large corporations. This is a great start for them, an opportunity to become really competent and in-demand specialists in their field.", - said Tatiana Rusyaeva.

The results of the qualifying stage of the championship will be known within five days. The semi-finals will be held in April. The final of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" will traditionally be held in Moscow and will bring together the best student engineering teams from universities in Russia and the CIS countries. The format of the championship (full-time or remote) will depend on the epidemiological situation in Russia.

The winners of the championship finals will receive valuable prizes, the opportunity to participate in All-Russian industry summer forums, advantages in admission to master's and postgraduate programs at 20 partner universities of the championship, and will also be able to complete internships at leading companies in the industry.

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