Kuzbass schoolchildren won a scattering of awards in the final of the CASE-IN championship

The winners of the School League of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" have been announced. Among them are students of the Center for Children's Scientific and Engineering Creativity at KuzSTU "UniqUe", created with the support of the Andrey Melnichenko Foundation and the Siberian Generating Company.

The International Engineering Championship is a system of competitions for solving engineering cases among schoolchildren, students and young specialists of the presidential platform project "Russia – the Land of Opportunities", which is part of the highest group of the list of events of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation.

The final of the School League was held on June 10 in an online format. Only 16 teams that became the best in the qualifying stage were allowed to defend, and in general, 78 teams from 59 regions took part in the main nomination of the Case Solving championship.

Following the results of the many-hour defense, the Neptume team was recognized as the winner, which included students of the Central Technical Technical University at KuzSTU UnikUm Konstantin Vorotkov, Maxim Makhankov and Alexey Pleshkan.

The guys presented to the experts the solution of the most difficult case "Secrets of sustainable development of the Amur region", in which they assessed the impact of the real project – the Amur gas Chemical complex under construction – on the social development, economy and environmental situation of the region.

Another team of students from the Andrey Melnichenko Foundation Educational Center, established at Kuzbass Polytechnic University, was also among the best. Veronika Paramonova and Rustam Shangareev (the Red Punk team) became the bronze medalists of the School League.

The head of the triumphant teams Ivan Paskar notes: "Solving a case is a very difficult task. The most important thing is the internal microclimate in the team, so that everyone is in their place. Thanks to the Center, the knowledge that my colleagues and I share in class and in communication with the guys, we are forming a new type of engineers who can solve important engineering problems from different points of view and positions. Thanks to the Case-In championship for coming up with tasks that make you give your best and broaden your horizons every time."

Along with the winners in solving the cases, the winners of the Engineering Solutions Competition were announced, in which 231 Russian schoolchildren participated. The bronze award was awarded to the Unique projectKonstantin Vorotkov, Veronika Paramonova and Rustam Shangareeva "Electricity consumption tracking system for educational institutions" (scientific supervisor – lecturer of the Center Vladislav Nemov).

In addition, this season, students in grades 6-8 were invited to create mock-ups of devices or structures related to fuel and energy complexes of the nuclear industry as part of an Engineering Solutions Competition. The young "unics" Ruslan Zaikin and Grigory Plaksin, who took 1st and 3rd place respectively. 

The winners and prize-winners of the junior and middle classes were awarded valuable prizes and invitations to specialized shifts at the children's summer camp. And the main winners – winners and prize–winners of the engineering case solving competition - along with an invitation to summer profile shifts and a visit to the partner company of the championship, will receive additional USE points upon admission to 40 leading technical universities in Russia.

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