Yaroslavl schoolgirls took the third place in the final of the CASE-IN championship

The final of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship, which is part of the Russia – Land of Opportunity platform, is taking place in Moscow. 156 teams of schoolchildren, students and young professionals are presenting their innovative developments to the expert community. In the School League, the Yaroslavl Region was represented by the Lyceum No. 86 team, which took third place and won the nomination for the "Most breakthrough Case Solution".

"The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship is a system of competitions for solving engineering cases among schoolchildren, students and young specialists in the fields of fuel and energy and mineral resources complexes. It is implemented within the framework of the federal project "Social elevators for everyone" of the national project "Education", is included in the initiative "Science to win" and the plan of the Decade of Science and Technology, – said Irina Loboda, Director of the Yaroslavl Region Department of Education. – The championship is aimed at popularizing the working and engineering professions. In addition, it promotes career guidance for schoolchildren. Last year, Yaroslavl Lyceum No. 86 topped the ratings of the School League Championship. It's encouraging that our guys are back on the podium this year."

The theme of the XI season of the CASE-IN championship is "Technological Leadership". During the final, 660 participants from the School and Student Leagues, as well as the League of Young Professionals and two Special Leagues, solved engineering cases and performed engineering and technical tasks related to artificial intelligence, computing and data transmission, robotics, and industrial technologies.

The youngest participants in the championship final were 12 teams of high school students from Moscow, the Republics of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan, Irkutsk, Yaroslavl, Orenburg and Chelyabinsk regions, Krasnoyarsk and Altai Territories, Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. For them, the case consisted in analyzing the Kazanorgsintez enterprise and making proposals for the modernization of production in terms of improving the quality of products and increasing the level of safety at the facility. 

The Yaroslavl team, which was represented by ninth-graders of Lyceum No. 86 Daria Kazakova and Milana Molotkova, developed a comprehensive solution. The declared enterprise is the only producer of polyethylene and polycarbonate, and the decision was made to modernize these production processes. At the polyethylene production line, the girls suggested adding highly sensitive color sensors to the existing digital system, which automatically control the polymer extrusion temperature, thereby reducing the number of defects during production. In polycarbonate production, the team proposed replacing existing reactors with new ones with the addition of a closed system of heat exchangers and a separator. At the championship, the girls were accompanied by their mentor Anton Petrov.

"The proposed solutions make it possible to increase the profit of the enterprise, the quality of products and, as a result, reduce the number of defects. We solved the issue of increasing security at the facility by introducing cameras and a neural network., – said the captain of the team Daria Kazakova. – Participation in the championship allowed us to evaluate our skills in the field of engineering and solving practice-oriented tasks. We are happy with the result, but we do not want to stop there. We are going to participate in the All-Russian competition "Big Change" and the Autumn Cup. «CASE-IN», where we plan to show good results."

The winning students received additional USE points upon admission to bachelor's degree programs at one of the 109 partner universities of the championship in 53 regions of Russia.

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