Young brothers became winners of the School League of the CASE-IN championship

The team of Bratsk school No. 18 with its project, a hardware and software complex, performed well in the School League of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" in the nomination "Creation of a technical device".

The path to success began 3 months ago, when the team of School No. 18 started creating a hardware and software complex at the Severnaya Zvezda Student Design Bureau of the Faculty of Energy and Automation of the BrSU to determine the maximum power point of solar power plants. Eleventh graders Ariana Yakovkina and Victor Mazur went all the way through the creation of the complex: from the idea to the test of the finished EPA module at the Burnina Island power plant.

By the way, it was Ariana's mother who brought the girl to science and fascinated her with physics.

Ariana Yakovkina, She won the School League of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN": «As a result, after a lot of trial and error, I realized that this is an interesting topic! And I'm more interested in alternative energy sources. I plan to enroll in our Faculty of Energy and Automation in our city and also plan to work here. I would like to stay in our city and work for its benefit, for the benefit of my beloved city. Leaving here is a big mistake in many ways."

Victor Mazur, won the School League of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN": "The work has brought us a lot of experience. They expressed their thoughts in their own way, offered their ideas, and the victory was unexpected. It was expected that there would be serious opponents in Moscow, but we have such an invention that we took it and won."

Relevance, scientific novelty, and completeness of the work are the criteria by which the contestants' work was evaluated. The EPA complex was presented for evaluation by the jury of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN". The result is the victory of the Bratsk team in the nomination "Creation of a technical device".

"CASE-IN" is one of the projects of the presidential platform "Russia — the land of opportunities". The Supervisory Board of the championship is headed by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The unique invention of the guys came to life, among other things, thanks to the associate professor of the Department of Energy of the BrSU Anatoly Strumelyak: «The work is aimed at providing solar energy power supply systems. The job belongs to the budget price category. That is, we try to implement these developments of ours in the budget segment so that they are as cheap as possible. By creating something new, creating a new product, we open up new areas for research."

Oksana Yefimova, Headmaster of school No. 18: «These children are moving forward with others, They are just great fellows, just like many in our school, we have a lot of such children — talented, unusual, on their own wave."

Bratsk Mayor Sergey Serebrennikov came to congratulate and personally communicate with the winners. The mayor is convinced that such gifted students should be supported, it is necessary to develop and strengthen the material and technical base of the school, which pays such attention to science.

Sergey Serebrennikov, Mayor of Bratsk: «They do not leave Bratsk, they stay to study at our BRSU. Here is a forge of personnel for the entire energy sector of Bratsk and the whole of Eastern Siberia, and maybe even the country. Of course, Oksana Alexandrovna, the principal of the school, sets the tone, as her eyes are burning, so, in fact, are the children who receive their education here. Education is informal, with a scientific approach."

Despite graduating from 11th grade this year, the students are already ready to work on other unique projects that will be useful for the city, region and country. Already, however, within the framework of the university.

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