SUEK: V Regional stage of the League of Working Specialties "CASE-IN" has been completed

From March 26 to March 28, 2021, the fifth regional stage of the League of Working Specialties of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" was successfully held in the Khabarovsk Territory with the support of JSC Urgalugol (part of the SUEK Group, the main shareholder Andrey Melnichenko), the Ministry of Education and Science of the Khabarovsk Territory at the sites of the Chegdomyn Mining and Technology College of the Year.".

The organizers of the Championship are the Reliable Shift Foundation, the Non-profit Partnership Youth Forum of Mining Leaders, ANO Russia – Land of Opportunities and AstraLogica LLC.

The organizers of the League of Working Specialties of the CASE-IN championship in the Khabarovsk Territory are JSC SUEK, JSC Urgalugol, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Khabarovsk Territory, the KGB of the Chegdomyn Mining and Technological College.

The CASE-IN International Engineering Championship is an international competition system for solving engineering cases for schoolchildren, students and young specialists in the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes, the nuclear industry and related industries.

The League of Working Specialties of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" is a practice—oriented project aimed at identifying and supporting the most promising students, as well as helping them gain practical knowledge, experience and new competencies, popularize engineering and technical education and attract young specialists to industrial enterprises in the fuel and energy and mineral industries.the raw materials complex.

Last year, the regional stage had to be canceled due to restrictions related to the pandemic. But this time the competition brought together more than 80 students from fourteen educational institutions of the Khabarovsk Territory, including the Vaninsky Interdisciplinary College, Khabarovsk Industrial and Economic College, Vyazma Forestry College named after N.V. Usenko, Chegdomyn Mining and Technology College, Khabarovsk Road Construction College, Solar Industrial College, Khabarovsk Technical College, Governor's Aircraft Engineering College of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Amur Polytechnic College, Khabarovsk College of Industrial Technologies in the service sector and others.

During the case defense and the intense practical part of the competition, student teams identified winners in five competencies: "Maintenance and repair of heavy-duty vehicles", "Maintenance and repair of self-propelled vehicles", "Mining technologies", "Electrical work", "Laboratory chemical analysis".

The experienced mentors of Urgalugol JSC, who acted as experts, and the teachers of the Chegdomyn Mining and Technology College had to evaluate the actions of the teams, the depth of theoretical knowledge, practical skills, teamwork, and the presence of pronounced leadership qualities among the captains. Also, as part of the regional stage, a sports spartakiad was held, where the teams competed for strength, endurance and coordination.

Following the results of two days of intense competition, the places were distributed as follows:

Competence: Maintenance and repair of heavy-duty vehicles 
1st place - KGBOU "Vaninsky Interdisciplinary College (Advanced Training Center)"
2nd place - Khabarovsk Industrial and Economic College
3rd place - KGBPOU "Vyazma Forestry Technical College named after N.V. Usenko"

Competence Maintenance and repair of heavy-duty vehicles
1st place - KGBOU "Vaninsky Interdisciplinary College (Advanced Training Center)"
2nd place - KGBPOU "Chegdomyn Mining and Technological College"
3rd place - Khabarovsk Road Construction College

Competence Mining technology
1st place - KGBPOU "Chegdomyn Mining and Technological College"
2nd place - KGBPOU "Solar Industrial College"
3rd place - Khabarovsk Technical College

Competence electrical installation work
1st place - Governor's Aviation Engineering College of Komsomolsk-on-Amur (Interregional Competence Center)
2nd place - Amur Polytechnic College
3rd place - KGBPOU "Chegdomyn Mining and Technological College"

Competence Laboratory chemical analysis
1st place - Amur Polytechnic College
2nd place - KGBPOU "Chegdomyn Mining and Technological College"
3rd place - Khabarovsk College of Industrial Technologies in the Service Sector

The winning teams received an invitation to the Mining Shift summer forum, which will be held in Chegdomyn in June this year also with the support of SUEK and JSC Urgalugol, and the best students will be considered as candidates for employment in JSC SUEK and JSC Urgalugol. Preliminary agreements on internships at the industrial sites of the largest coal mining enterprise in the Khabarovsk Territory have already been reached.

For reference: SUEK is one of the world's leading coal mining and energy companies, Russia's largest coal producer, the largest supplier of coal to the domestic market and for export, and one of the main producers of heat and electricity in the country. SUEK's mining, processing, energy, transportation and service enterprises are located in 12 regions of Russia. More than 70,000 people work at SUEK enterprises. The main shareholder is Andrey Melnichenko.

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