The jubilee season of the CASE-IN Championship opens up new opportunities for young engineers

A large teleconference with the participation of representatives of relevant ministries, leading specialists from the country's largest companies, schoolchildren, students and guests kicked off the X season The International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" – one of the projects of thethe resident platform "Russia – the land of opportunities". Throughout the year, young people will compete for the main prizes: additional USE points, internships at production sites and inclusion in the personnel reserve of companies, this will be an effective help for starting the professional path of a new generation of engineers.

The anniversary season of the CASE-IN International Engineering Championship will bring together talented contestants from different parts of the country, and new formats from the organizers will allow them to fully realize their unique ideas. The X-season that started will last 5 months and will end with the finale in Moscow.

"The CASE-IN Championship, like all projects of the Russia – Land of Opportunity platform, serves as a social elevator for its participants, - said the Deputy Director General of the presidential platform "Russia – the land of opportunities" Anton Serikov. - There are three key success indicators of this "elevator" in the championship: schoolchildren enroll in specialized universities using additional USE scores, students enroll in master's and postgraduate studies, do internships and come to work in the industry, young specialists are promoted within the company, and their solutions are implemented and used in practice. According to statistics from the previous season, 90% of schoolchildren enrolled in universities, every third student received an invitation to practice or internship, 42% of young professionals were promoted, and every third case solution was implemented in the company. All this allows us to consider the championship effective and expect new success stories in the anniversary season."

The competitions will be held in the School League, the Student League and the League of Young Professionals and will be united by the main theme - "Industry 4.0". In 7-10 days, future and young specialists will have to develop solutions to cases based on real production tasks and related to the development of smart manufacturing and technologies.

"The Student League in the jubilee year will traditionally unite students of specialized universities in Russia and neighboring countries and will be marked by the opening of new directions.- said the founder and co-chairman of the organizing committee of the CASE-IN championship Artem Korolev, -Thanks to the partner of the ALROSA project, the Mining business area has been expanded to include Mining Machinery and Equipment. The diamond mining company outlined tasks for the contestants related to the transportation and technical equipment of mining pits and improving the quality of rounds and inspections of the equipment of the processing plant. With the support of the new strategic partner of the championship, Gazstroyprom JSC, two new areas are being launched – Automation and IT and Industrial Safety.

As part of the first area, future programmers and IT specialists will develop solutions for automating various technological processes and productions, using information technologies to optimize them and increase efficiency. Students will also need to reflect information management issues in their projects, including the creation, storage, transmission and retrieval of data.

The Industrial Safety direction is inextricably linked with ensuring industrial safety, labor protection and environmental safety in the conduct of industrial, economic and other types of activities. Future specialists will be asked by the company to assess the degree of protection of society from accidents at hazardous production facilities and their consequences, as well as possible negative impacts and emergencies of a natural and man-made nature.

The areas that have already given way to the profession to more than one generation of students remain in the competitive grid of the championship: geological exploration, mining, metallurgy, oil and gas, petrochemistry, design engineering and electric power industry.

The start of the season will set other urgent tasks for students: assessing the alluvial occurrence of diamonds in Yakutia, reducing the cost of laying the depleted space of the underground mine, improving the quality of rounds and inspections of the equipment of the enrichment plant, modernizing aluminum production, new technologies for the electric grid company, ammonia production and carbon monoxide utilization, reserves of power of the unified energy system.

Schoolchildren are traditionally the youngest participants of the CASE-IN championship. SIBUR remains the partner of the School League competitions in the Xth season.

Students from grades 3 to 11 can apply for the "Engineering Solutions Competition", which is supported by the partner company Prosoft-Systems LLC. The organizers have prepared several nominations for young talents at once: schoolchildren will be able to present their drawings, mock-ups of devices and structures, and technical devices for energy management systems using augmented reality.

Students in grades 9-11 will have to develop unique projects on the most important industry topics and present them to the expert community.

The League of Young Specialists is already a competition for current employees of domestic companies in the fuel and energy complex and the Moscow Energy Complex, the nuclear industry and related industries under the age of 35. Throughout the season, youth teams will develop projects related to the development of smart manufacturing and smart technologies, and then present them to the expert commission.

The Autumn Cup will be a continuation of the jubilee season of the CASE-IN championship. From September to December 2022, schoolchildren, students and young professionals will continue to compete for the main prizes of the year. The results of the jubilee season will be announced in December 2022, when the final of the Autumn Cup will be held.

"In the anniversary year, we have prepared a lot of different projects and activities for industry youth, starting from solving cases and ending with vivid stories and contests on social networks., - notes Artem Korolev, - The traditional prizes of the project – additional USE points, internships in leading industry companies and great career prospects – are just some of the great opportunities that await the contestants in the new season."

The partners of the championship in the jubilee season are JSC ALROSA, PJSC SIBUR, RUSAL, JSC Gazstroyprom, JSC SO UES, PJSC YATEK, Micromine, Dassault Systèmes, NIPIGAZ, JSC MHC EuroChem, JSC Rosgeologiya, PJSC FGC UES, JSC Krastsvetmet", Evraz Holding LLC, PJSC RusHydro, Siberian Generating Company LLC, IMC Montan, Siberian Anthracite JSC, Prosoft Systems LLC, Raspadskaya Coal Company JSC, Schlumberger,

The organizers of the "CASE-IN" championship are Reliable Change Foundation, Non-profit partnership "Youth Forum of Mining Leaders" and LLC "AstraLogica".  The "CASE-IN" project of the presidential platform "Russia – the land of Opportunities" is being implemented within the framework of the federal project "Social Elevators for Everyone" of the national project "Education".