The results of the anniversary "CASE-IN" – at a press conference in TASS

The final was held on June 10, 2022 School League The International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", which is included in the presidential platform "Russia – the land of opportunities".  The presentation of case solutions on the topic "Industry 4.0" and the announcement of the winners of the Engineering Solutions Competition for schoolchildren became the end of the jubilee season "CASE-IN"and the overall results of the 10-year history of the project were summed up at a press conference on the same day.

6,753 participants of the jubilee season, 36 champions and prize-winners, great opportunities for future and young engineers: the results of the X International Engineering Championship "CASE–IN", one of the projects of the presidential platform "Russia – the land of opportunities", were summed up in Moscow.

Alexey Agafonov, First Deputy General Director of ANO Russia – the Land of Opportunities He stressed that the CASE-IN championship is developing as a social elevator for young people, which helps schoolchildren, students and young professionals to gain new opportunities, decide on their future profession and move up the career ladder.

"The tenth anniversary is a reason for pride and recognition of achievements in educating future personnel for various industries in the country., –  noted Alexey Agafonov. – Over the years, the championship has become a large and friendly family, uniting future and current employees of the fuel and energy complex, as well as fans of engineering and technical skills. 5,722 students, 288 young professionals and 743 schoolchildren from more than 50 regions of Russia, Kazakhstan and the Republic of Belarus will go down in history as participants of the X season. The best students will receive additional points for the Unified State Exam upon admission to universities, triumphant students – a chance to get an internship or a dream internship, as well as the opportunity to enroll in a master's or postgraduate program without entrance tests. The best young specialists will join the managerial personnel reserve of their companies. But medals, cups and prizes – this is not the primary advantage of the championship. After all, he It helps young people not only improve their professional and personal skills, but also realize their potential. And there are more and more such guys."

The winners of the championship will also receive a lot of useful prizes and the opportunity to upgrade their skills on other projects of the Russia – Land of Opportunities platform.

"First of all, these are the student Olympiad "I am a professional", our new competition "Ecosophy", the "Student of the Year" award, the All–Russian competition for students "Your Move", Alexey Agafonov continued. – This year "CASE-IN" I launched a collaboration with our development program "Another Matter": bonuses were prepared for each participant – useful and interesting excursions, meetings with stars, subscriptions to online courses, access to electronic libraries, trips to unique places and much more. And thanks to the "More than a Journey" program, CASE-IN participants were eligible for incentive trips around Russia. The new champions of the project will also be able to take advantage of this opportunity!"

Founder and co-chairman of "CASE-IN" Artem Korolev He noted that in the first decade, the championship has grown from a small startup into a practice-oriented educational project that promotes engineering education, introduces the engineering profession, helps improve skills and develops the engineering human resources potential of our country.

"Together with the organizing committee, we realized that in the new decade, one of our new development vectors should be the international direction. We have developed the concept of national championships for solving engineering cases so that universities that train engineers in the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, together with partner companies, develop cases relevant to their countries, recruit participants and hold competitions that will become practice-oriented platforms for the development of a new engineering generation.", - Artem Korolev shared his plans for the project.

This year, at the initiative of Gazstroyprom JSC, the industry line of the championship was expanded in the areas of Automation and IT and Industrial Safety.

First Deputy General Director of Gazstroyprom JSC Mikhail Eremin He noted that the company is interested in young, motivated, ambitious specialists, therefore it supports the "CASE-IN" championship. "The Automation and IT direction is interesting primarily from the point of view of optimizing the work of construction equipment and personnel based on the principles of "smart" production. And the direction of "Industrial safety" is generally the basis of construction. At the championship, we especially highlighted the topic of environmental protection in the conduct of production activities and were able to see a fresh modern look at the processes that are familiar to us. What is encouraging is that the cases worked out by the teams were as close as possible to real events. We have already invited the best students for a paid internship, and upon graduation we will be glad to see them as our staff. We are confident that our construction sites need to attract young people who are able to look at any problem in a new way, freely, without stereotypes. And cooperation with CASE-IN seems to us to be the optimal solution for finding talented engineers."

For the second year in a row, the participants in the Oil and Gas Business are supported by PJSC YATEK. According to the Deputy General Director of the company for Geology, Geophysics and field development, the chief geologist Anton Nedosekin The championship helps to discover more and more talented and inventive young people who do not know the word "impossible": "Young professionals are the cornerstone that any industry needs. "CASE IN" is a concentration of enthusiastic and motivated participants who have fresh ideas.  They strive to get higher education for a reason, they try to devote their lives to the oil and gas business, and we create all the conditions for these guys to come to the enterprise, stay to work, and later start families and create labor dynasties."

This year, the company is expecting student teams from IRNTU, Far Eastern Federal University and NEFU named after M.K.Ammosov to practice.

"Students will be paid for travel, salaries will be paid, housing will be provided and access to all technologies that are used in our production. During the month of practice, students will see the process of gas production at wells, get acquainted with the techniques of well repair and methods of eliminating accidents, and immerse themselves in the work of the project office", – Anton Nedosekin told at a press conference.

Future interns of PJSC YATEK, the Lagrange's Theorem team from IRNTU, shared their impressions at a press conference. Evgeny Rudykh, Sergey Kobylinsky, Viktor Kovrizhnykh and Mikhail Semykin tell us: "This is the 4th time we have participated in the championship. We improved our results every year, last year we managed to become bronze medalists, and now we win. As part of the assignment, we needed to select and justify the technology for producing ammonia from natural gas, choose a method for disposing of the carbon dioxide released during this process, and also propose options for digitalizing this production. As a result, we proposed an alternative option for monetization of natural gas - the creation of a gas chemical cluster for the production of ammonia, methanol, carbamide and bioprotein. At the same time, all production and digitalization technologies were from domestic companies. For us, winning the championship is the result of hard work throughout the entire training period."

On behalf of the League of Young Professionals, the champions of the Sibur-Kstovo youth team Denis Shiryaev, Lyubava Bukhtoyarova, Andrey Tyulin and Alexander Khvalin summed up the results at the press conference.

Team Captain Denis Shiryaev He said that he and his colleagues are participating in the "CASE-IN" for the second time.: "Last year we reached the finals, but we didn't perform our best and didn't even make the top ten. This year we carried out comprehensive work on mistakes, took into account the experience gained and became champions of the league. At first, we perceived the championship as a kind of challenge and a way out of our comfort zone, we wanted to make ourselves known within the company. But then we realized that it was also a great opportunity to look at the work of specialists from other enterprises, share experiences with them, broaden our horizons and strengthen our personal and professional qualities."

The final of the CASE-IN School League was held in parallel with the press conference.

The School League was attended by 743 students from grades 3 to 11 from more than 50 regions of Russia. Depending on their age, the children competed in a contest of drawings and layouts, the development of technical devices, structures and solutions for cases related to the fuel and energy complex, the MSC or the nuclear industry. SIBUR has always been a partner of the league.

In the qualifying stage, 298 children competed in the "Case solving" direction. Schoolchildren in grades 9-11 joined teams to solve the case "What the abbreviation I4.0 hides". SIBUR invited high school students to think about creating an environmentally friendly, safe and modern enterprise. The participants chose the technology of the fourth industrial revolution, used in Russian industrial enterprises, and proved its impact on production safety.

16 teams of schoolchildren from 9 cities met in the final, and the laurels of the winners and prize-winners went to two teams from Yaroslavl and a team of high school students from Moscow.

The winners of the scientific and technical "wing" of the School League, an Engineering Solutions Competition in which 122 schoolchildren of different ages competed, were also announced.   

51 students of grades 3-5 from 13 regions of Russia joined the drawing contest.

The winners were participants from Volgograd, Ivanovo, Penza, Sverdlovsk regions and Moscow.

Students of grades 6-8 constructed mock-ups of structures and facilities of the fuel and energy complex. The awards were given to schoolchildren from Kemerovo, Ivanovo and Volgograd regions and the Republic of Adygea.

A student of the 7th grade of Lyceum No. 89, a pupil of the Center for Children's Scientific and Engineering Creativity at the Kuzbass State Technical University named after T. F. Gorbachev "Unique" Grigory Plaksin He completed the work "Wind and Water Energy", dedicated to renewable energy sources.

"I decided to participate in this competition in order to gain new experience, knowledge, and, of course, try to win. I divided all the work into small stages and spent three months building a mockup for 40 minutes every day. The most important thing in a layout is attention to detail, and when you start to believe that little people live in it, it's especially inspiring. Thanks to classes at UNIKUM and the help of my parents, I was able to realize my ideas and win.", - said the champion at the final press conference.

The oldest participants, students in grades 9-11, developed 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.

The winners and prize-winners were schoolchildren from Irkutsk, Vologda and Yaroslavl regions.

The winners and prize–winners of the final will receive new educational opportunities: additional points for the Unified State Exam when applying to partner universities of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN".

The jubilee X season of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" will continue with the Autumn Cup competitions. Registration for schoolchildren, students and young professionals will open on September 1.