Schoolchildren at the "CASE-IN" championship develop solutions on the topic "Industry 4.0"

743 schoolchildren of grades 3-11 from 98 cities participate in the jubilee X season The International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN», part of the The presidential platform "Russia – the land of opportunities". The participants of the School League will present theoretical solutions, technical developments, layouts and drawings, and the authors of the best ideas will have opportunities to enter a university and develop new skills.

The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship is an international competition system for solving engineering cases among students, schoolchildren and young professionals. The purpose of the Championship is to popularize engineering and technical education and attract the most promising young specialists to the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes.

"Artificial intelligence and robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT) and 3D printing, virtual and augmented reality, bio and neurotechnology, smart manufacturing - all these are not just buzzwords, but phenomena that are becoming a full-fledged part of our daily lives every day. Therefore, we decided to dedicate the X anniversary season of the championship to the theme "Industry 4.0", and we received a strong response from young people – almost 6 thousand students, 288 young professionals and 743 schoolchildren from more than 50 regions of Russia, Kazakhstan and the Republic of Belarus participated.", – said the Director General of ANO "Russia – the land of opportunities" Alexey Komissarov.

The CASE-IN School League is aimed at popularizing knowledge about the industry, forming a positive and responsible attitude towards this field of knowledge among children, and identifying the most promising students interested in future work in the fuel and energy complex and the Moscow Nuclear Industry and related industries.

The competitions are held in two directions: "Engineering Solutions Competition" and "Case Solution".

In the Engineering Solutions Competition, students in grades 9-11 develop an engineering project or technical device from the Industry 4.0 technology package, the introduction of which into the Russian energy sector will increase productivity, competitiveness and safety of the country's fuel and energy complex.

Students in grades 6 to 8 use improvised tools to create models of power plants, oil and gas industry facilities, or renewable energy sources.

The youngest participants from grades 3-5 prepare original posters dedicated to the professional holidays of the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes.

"We want to show students the authority of the fuel and energy complex and MSK professions, so we offered the youngest participants of the championship to make posters dedicated to the Day of the Power Engineer, the Day of the Miner and the Day of Workers in the oil, Gas and Fuel industries., - explains the founder and co-chairman of the championship Artem Korolev, - The guys can also choose the "CASE IN" 10th anniversary theme for their poster.

Students of grades 9-11, having joined teams, are working on solving the case "What the abbreviation I4.0 hides". SIBUR, a permanent partner of the School League, invited high school students to think about creating an environmentally friendly, safe and modern enterprise. The participants of the competition must choose a technology of the fourth industrial revolution used in Russian industrial enterprises and prove its impact on production safety.

"We work with young people systematically. The company focuses both on popularizing the natural sciences and on developing engineering competencies, which will receive in-depth study at the university after school, and then will be used in work at SIBUR enterprises. In order to grow specialists, we need serious training in all areas of the educational ecosystem – from equipping or reconstructing the space in which students receive knowledge, to training experts and teachers who transmit knowledge and form an engineering standard. Championships like CASE-IN allow us to create an educational environment in which students will develop, share ideas and first-hand experience in developing applied and business-oriented projects."- said the Director of Human Resources Management at SIBUR Albina Labashova.

The experts will name the winners of the Engineering Solutions Competition at the end of April 2022, and the best case-solving teams will meet again in the finals at the end of May 2022.

Champions and prize-winners of the CASE–IN School League will receive valuable prizes, invitations to specialized educational shifts, as well as additional USE points for admission to partner universities of the championship.