The CASE-IN Championship is held in Nizhny Novgorod with the support of the Ministry of Education and Science

The Student League of the XI season of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", one of the projects of the platform "Russia – the land of opportunities", has overcome the equator. More than 30 universities have already accepted the qualifying stages of the new season, and among them is the Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University named after R. E. Alekseev.

The guests and experts of the competition are specialists from the partner companies of the championship, as well as the leadership of relevant ministries and departments. Olga Petrova, Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, greeted the participants of the competition in the field of "Project Engineering" at the R. E. Alekseev NSTU.

"Today I am pleased to welcome the participants of the qualifying stage of the engineering championship in Nizhny Novgorod, where a large number of large-scale and strategically important enterprises for the country are concentrated, that is, your potential employers, - underlined it Olga Petrova, - By participating in the championship, students and young professionals acquire teamwork skills, form solutions to current industry challenges, and learn how to develop and defend their own ideas."

The Deputy Minister noted that participation in the championship provides students with experience in solving real-world production problems, communication with top officials of industry companies, universities and government agencies, exclusive offers of practice and work from leading companies, as well as a full arsenal of universal competencies and a weighty line in their resume.

"Perhaps the ideas you developed at the Championship can be useful in the future and even implemented in the work of the real sector of the economy and Russian industry. I will be glad to meet you already among the finalists in Moscow.", " She said Olga Petrova.

Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University named after R. E. Alekseev has been participating in the CASE-IN championship since 2019.  The university is confidently leading in the ranking of universities participating in the "CASE-IN" in the field of "Digital Atom": the university team has been the first for three years in a row. The Polytech team is also one of the three leaders in Automation and IT.

"This year, two venues of the R.E. Alekseev NSTU at once, in Nizhny Novgorod and Dzerzhinsk, took part in organizing the qualifying stage of the CASE-IN Championship. I am pleased to inform you that as a result of this year's qualifiers, three polytechnic teams made it to the semifinals at once, and every year we raise the bar for performance and show a high level of professionalism and student training. I would also like to note the high qualifications of the team mentors, many of them started their careers as participants in the Championship and are now passing on their experience to young students. Mentoring is highly appreciated when getting an education at our university, we help students in their implementation and support their work in the scientific field, including the IT cluster. I wish the guys further victories, I hope that this year the results will be even better, perhaps for many – participation and victory will be the initial impetus in the career of a sought-after specialist in the real sector of the economy," said Sergey Dmitriev, Rector of the R.E. Alekseev NSTU.

The ratings of the participating universities of the "CASE-IN" can be found at the link.