The triumphant CASE-IN students from St. Petersburg completed internships at Rosatom facilities

This was made possible by their successful performance at the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" in the field of "Digital Atom".

Last summer, about 2.5 thousand students of the Mining University completed internships at partner companies. Among them are PhosAgro, Gazprom, Rosneft, SUEK and many others. An internship at Rosatom facilities has become a special feature of this year. Thus, the state corporation noted the success of two university teams that won prizes in the CASE-IN engineering championship in the Digital Atom field.

This year, students of the Mining University tried their hand at creating digital technologies for the nuclear industry for the first time and immediately became one of the best in Russia, which gave them the opportunity to go on a technical tour to the Kola Peninsula. It was the formation of a cross-functional team with different competencies, as noted by Yuri Zhukovsky, director of the Educational and Scientific Center for Digital Technologies, that allowed the contestants to succeed in the Digital Atom direction and acquire new professional skills.

The development of programs for the nuclear power plant has been going on for more than six months. It was necessary to create various IT mechanisms that would allow new Rosatom employees to adapt to the company. The developments proposed by the students of the Mining University were highly appreciated by the heads of the holding's structural divisions and HR departments. The contestants developed websites and applications to integrate employees into an environment unfamiliar to them, and even used virtual reality to simulate the space of a nuclear power plant.

"Students of the Mining University have been participating in the CASE-IN competition for several years, but they have experienced their strength in creating digital technologies for the first time. The fact is that it is not enough to have knowledge in the field of programming or to understand the structure of Rosatom, a symbiosis of competencies is needed here. The university has all the necessary infrastructure for this. For example, in the Centers of Digital Technologies and Digital Modeling, our students can receive additional knowledge in their field of interest for free.", - Yuri Zhukovsky, Director of the Educational and Scientific Center for Digital Technologies at the Mining University, noted.

The internship, during which the students visited the Kola NPP, the Radioactive Waste Management Center, the nuclear icebreaking fleet, the Marine Operations Center and the first nuclear icebreaker Lenin, lasted three days.

"The tour of Rostatom's facilities was an introductory one, but it turned out to be very interesting. We are convinced of the enormous prospects of nuclear energy and that it will remain an integral part of the global fuel and energy complex in the future.", - Antonina Stoyanova, a 2nd-year student of the ISTM-20 Master's degree, told the story.

In addition, the students of the Mining University learned that Rosatom has not yet applied the digital programs developed for the competition for the adaptation of nuclear industry employees, and today the state corporation is interested in such ideas.

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