16 school teams made it to the finals of the Autumn Cup of the CASE-IN Championship

In  The School League of the Autumn Cup of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" The names of the finalists have been determined. Students in grades 9-11 from almost all regions of Russia have demonstrated their talents and acquired valuable competencies for further development, and the 16 teams that performed best on the assignment from SIBUR, one of Russia's largest industrial companies, are preparing to present their schools at the crucial stage of the prestigious project. ANO "Russia – the land of opportunities".

The X anniversary season of the championship is marked by Industry 4.0. In the qualifying stage, high school students from 160 schools solved cases based on real-world production situations related to the development of digitalization and the introduction of information technology on production sites.

As part of the assignment from the partner of the SIBUR 191 School League, the team studied Industry 4.0 technologies (artificial intelligence, digital twins, predictive diagnostic systems, Big Data, and others), analyzed the causes of accidents on technological equipment of one of the enterprises of PJSC SIBUR Holding, and developed solutions to improve the reliability and efficiency of this equipment using technologies of Industry 4.0.

According to the decision of the expert commission, 16 school teams from the cities of Moscow, Yaroslavl (Yaroslavl region), Nizhnevartovsk (Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug), Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk Region), Magnitogorsk, Ozersk and Trekhgorny (all Chelyabinsk region), Kirov (Kirov region), Irkutsk (Irkutsk Region), Kemerovo (Kemerovo Region), Naryan-Mar (Arkhangelsk Region), Nizhny Novgorod (Nizhny Novgorod Region), Barnaul (Altai Territory), as well as the urban-type settlements of Shushenskoye (Krasnoyarsk Territory).

The full list of finalists is available at the link.

Soon, the winners of the qualifying stage will receive the task of the final case "Industry 4.0: new competencies". Young engineers will have to understand how the composition and requirements for staff should change, taking into account the introduction of Industry 4.0 technologies, what employees should additionally learn and what skills they should master. As part of their projects, students will propose a concept for an educational platform for training and developing personnel based on Industry 4.0 technologies and assess how the introduction of Industry 4.0 technologies will affect SIBUR's ESG ratings.

The student teams will present the results of their efforts to the industry community at the final of the CASE-IN School League, which will be held in December 2022. The expert commission will give preference to projects that can be implemented in real production over the next 5 years.

The reward for the champions and prize-winners of the season will be additional points for the Unified State Exam when applying to leading universities in Russia. In addition, the winners will receive vouchers for specialized shifts at All-Russian children's centers. "Eaglet" and "Change" and they will be able to travel around Russia within the framework of the ANO project "Russia – the land of opportunities". "More than a journey".