The youth team of the System Operator won the silver medal in the final of the CASE-IN championship

On May 25-27, the final of the jubilee X International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" was held in Moscow. According to the results of the championship, the team of young specialists of the SO_Team System Operator took the second place in the League of Young Specialists.

The team of the System Operator "SO_Team" includes a specialist of the 1st category of the Electrical Modes Service The Center's ODE Anastasia Chegodaeva (team captain), Category 1 Specialist of the ODU Center's Market Support Service Daria Silyukova, Head of the Department of Power Balances, Electricity and Statistics of the Energy Regimes, Balances and Development Service Tula RDU Svetlana Smirnova and Pavel Bolotov, a leading specialist in the Operational Dispatch Service of JSC SO UES.

The team of JSC SO UES System Energy, which included a leading expert from the Electrical Modes Service, also took part in the final of the championship. Karelian RDU Denis Petrushin (team captain), a leading specialist in the Electrical Modes Service ODE to the Northwest Yuri Shibachev, Chief Specialist of the Electrical Modes Service Baltic RDU Ilya Bonchuk and a leading specialist of the Electrical Modes Service Kola RD Anastasia Ivanova.

During the competition, the participants solved practical cases proposed by the partner companies of the championship. The teams have formed a draft of changes in the company's management system that can ensure technological development and minimize the risks associated with the irretrievable loss of qualified personnel. The work of the teams was evaluated by an expert commission consisting of representatives of leading Russian energy companies and universities.

In total, 15 teams met in the finals of the League of Young Specialists of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", representing, in addition to the System Operator, such companies as PJSC Yuzhny Kuzbass, JSC SUEK-Kuzbass, JSC Zarubezhneft, the Nizhny Novgorod Branch of PJSC T Plus", Gazpromneft NTC LLC, Sibur-Khimprom JSC, Yakutskenergo PJSC, Sibur-Kstovo PJSC, Gazpromneft-MNPZ JSC, Gazpromneft Zapolyarye LLC, Rosseti PJSC, Zapsibneftekhim LLC. The winners in the League of Young Specialists were the Challenge accepted team of PJSC SIBUR-Kstovo, the third place was taken by the TROY team of Zapsibneftekhim LLC.

134 teams of students from 108 universities from 44 cities of Russia, as well as a team from the Republic of Kazakhstan and 3 teams from the Republic of Belarus participated in the final of the Student League "CASE-IN". The participants of the competition had to present their solutions to practical problems in 10 industry areas: automation and IT, geological exploration, mining, mining machinery and equipment, metallurgy, oil and gas, petrochemistry, project engineering, industrial safety, electric power industry.

In the field of "Electric Power Industry", the students had to prepare solutions to the cases developed by the electric power companies – partners of the championship. The system operator invited the students to form an action plan to improve the reliability of the Unified Energy System of the East based on modern technologies and management tools.

The first place in the "Electric Power Industry" category of the Student League of the championship was taken by the "WattsUp" team of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, the second - by the "WeWatt" team of St. Petersburg Mining University, the third – by the "fEn" team of Novosibirsk State Technical University.

The awards to the silver medalists of the Student League of the championship were presented by the HR Director of JSC "SO UES" Bayrta Perveeva.

"It is very important for us that young people who plan to connect their lives with the electric power industry receive a unique experience in solving practical problems based on real production situations during the championship. The championship is attended by students of partner universities of the System Operator who are studying in specialized programs, as well as universities with which the System Operator has signed cooperation agreements. It is encouraging to see that students of two such universities were among the winners: Peter the Great St. Petersburg State University and NSTU. These are the guys who, we hope, will work in our company after completing their studies.", – she noted.

JSC SO UES has been a strategic partner of the Electric Power Industry direction of the Student League of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" for the eighth year in a row. Based on the materials and with the participation of the company's specialists, qualifying and final cases of the Electric Power Industry direction are being developed, the championship stages are held in all partner universities of JSC SO UES, representatives of the System Operator act as experts for both the qualifying stages of the championship and the final of the competition.

The CASE-IN 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 championship has been held since 2013.  The organizers of the championship are the Reliable Change Foundation, the Non-profit Partnership Youth Forum of Mining Leaders and AstraLogica LLC. The co–organizer of the Season X finale is the National Research Technological University MISIS. The CASE-IN Engineering Championship is part of the Russia – Land of Opportunity platform and is implemented within the framework of the federal project "Social Elevators for Everyone" of the national Education project.

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