Registration for the MSH School League continues: make it to August 31.

Registration of participants continues School League III The International Construction Championship – the All-Russian competition for solving construction cases among students in grades 8-10. The school league is organized jointly The International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" and the International Construction Championship, which are part of the presidential the Russia – the Land of Opportunities platform.

The III International Construction Championship will be held from October 17 to 20, 2023 at the EXPOFORUM Convention and Exhibition Center in St. Petersburg. The event is organized by the Ministry of Construction of Russia, Rosatom State Corporation, the presidential platform "Russia – the Land of Opportunities", Gazprom PJSC represented by Gazprom Invest LLC and the Government of St. Petersburg.

The School League is an All–Russian team competition among schoolchildren to solve cases in the field of construction in the categories "Technologies in construction", "Efficiency of facilities under construction and operated", "Construction and the environment" and "Organization of construction production".

The purpose of the competition is to support the personnel transformation of the construction industry, popularize the topic of construction among young people, increase the prestige of construction professions, create preferences for schoolchildren when applying to specialized universities, colleges and technical schools, and attract new personnel to the construction industry.

The School League's cases are devoted to designing cities of the future of Russia and their individual parts in specified territories to create comfortable living conditions for people. High school students will need to demonstrate critical thinking, knowledge and ability to apply technology in construction, the ability to organize construction production, knowledge of fireworks design, the ability to learn in the process, the ability to take into account the main factors of sustainable development of specific territories: economic, environmental, social.

The topic of the case will be the construction of civil and/or industrial facilities. As part of the competition, students in grades 8-10 in teams of 2 people will choose one of four modern construction professions and develop a solution in the appropriate category.:

1. BIM Manager: technologies in construction;

2. Architect and designer of "smart" infrastructure: efficiency of facilities under construction and in operation;

3. Urban ecologist: construction and the environment;

4. Foreman and specialist in construction organization: organization of construction production.

High school students will present their solutions in various formats to choose from: essays, presentations, illustrations, a mock-up of a construction site made from improvised materials or using additive technologies, program code (including a mobile application), a device, a robot, a three-dimensional model or objects created in computer games (Minecraft, The Sims, SimCity and so on).

Students will develop each solution for one of the 4 regions of Russia located in different climatic zones. These are the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug in the Arctic; the Krasnodar Territory in the subtropics; the Sverdlovsk Region, located in the temperate continental climate zone and the Leningrad Region in the Atlantic-continental zone.

The competition will be held in several stages.

From April 24 to August 31, 2023, there is an absentee qualifying stage, when each team needs to register and send their decisions to experts for evaluation.

The 12 strongest teams in each direction will advance to the semifinals, which will be held on September 14-15, 2023.. The semi-finalists will present their developments to experts in an online format and compete to reach the finals.

The final of the School League of the International Construction Championship will be held in person in St. Petersburg in October 2023.. The finalists will be 6 of the strongest teams in each field, who will not only present their projects, but also complete additional tasks.

The decisions of the participants at each stage will be evaluated by experts from industry companies and industry universities. 

The winners of the School League will receive additional points for the Unified State Exam when applying to Russian partner universities The International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", as well as cash prizes from the founders of the International Construction Championship: the total prize fund is 1,200,000 rubles.

In addition, the strongest participants will have the opportunity to travel around Russia as part of the "More than a Trip" program, and all participants will be awarded certificates of participation and incentive prizes.

Registration for the School League competitions is open until August 31, 2023 on the project page. 

The International Construction Championship was established in February 2020 by the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Russian Federation and the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, and is held in accordance with the priorities of the Strategy for the Development of the Construction Industry and Housing and Communal Services for the period up to 2030. Since 2022, the Championship has been included in the line of projects of the presidential platform "Russia – the land of opportunities", and is also included in the plan of annual events for the implementation of the Concept of interregional and cross-border cooperation of the CIS member states for the period up to 2030.

The co–organizers of the International Construction Championship in 2023 are Gazprom PJSC, ANO Russia - Land of Opportunities and the government of St. Petersburg.

The partners of the School League of the International Construction Championship are also the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, the Personnel Center of the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Russian Federation, the All-Russian Intersectoral Association of Employers "Russian Union of Builders", the Industry Consortium "Construction and Architecture", the All-Russian Public and State Movement of Children and Youth "The Movement of the First", the Youth all-Russian public organization "Russian Student Groups" and other partners of the International Construction Championship in 2023.