The qualifying round of the anniversary international Cac-in Championship started in Magadan

The qualifying round of the V anniversary Case-in International Engineering Championship started today in the assembly hall of the Polytechnic Institute of St. Petersburg State University. A unique educational project to identify and support the most promising and motivated mining students and postgraduates has brought together the best representatives of Kolyma's leading university. As part of the qualifying round, there is a competition between two leagues – "Mining" and "Geological Exploration", each of which has 5 teams. The group that experts recognize as the best will go to the final Case-in competition, which will be held in Moscow at the end of May. I found out how the championship was held. MagadanMedia News Agency, which supported this large-scale event by becoming an information partner of the event. 

International Engineering Case-in Championship – the largest practice-oriented project, taking place in the format of a competition for solving engineering cases (practical tasks) among students in the specialties of fuel and energy and mineral resources complexes.

As noted at the opening of the competition Vladimir Mitkin, Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of Kolyma, The mining industry is a leading one for the Magadan Region, so the Case–in Championship is the most important event for the territory. "For young engineers, this is a wonderful experience and a manifestation of their talent, intelligence and originality in solving mining and exploration tasks," said the head of the regional ministry.

Today, as part of the qualifying round of the International Case Solving Championship in the field of mining and geological exploration, 10 teams entered the competition at SVSU.

The participants of the qualifying stage of the exploration league included such teams as: "Let's go", "Onyx", "Carat", "Dixon" and"Game". And the Mining League was introduced "Amethyst", "Loading...22.5%", "Legion", "Miners" and "Magadan Consulting Group (MCG)". The participants have been solving engineering cases for 9 days, and today they presented a 6-minute presentation of the solution according to the format set by the organizers.

So, the task for the league is "Mining" Under the name "Svobodny Section", it consisted in analyzing the mining and geological conditions of the coal deposit and proposing mining technology that ensures the planned production volumes of the Svobodny section according to its schedule and determining the amount of investments needed to implement the proposed solutions.

Assignment for the league "Geological exploration" ("Through the millennia") – to analyze the geological conditions of the Palem gold-antimony deposit and develop a project for exploration of the deposit, select the optimal exploration system and its parameters.

The experts of the championship included: Vladimir Mitkin, Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of Kolyma, Vasily Kurashko, Chief Geologist of Kinross Far East LLC, Sergey Petrov, Deputy Director of the Magadan Branch of Polymetal JSC for Mineral Resources, Olga Leonova, Vice-Rector for Research at St. Petersburg State University, Head of the Magadan Innovation and Technology Center of the Northeastern Integrated Research Institute named after Shilo Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yuri Pruss, Director of the Magadan Branch of Polymetal Management Company Gennady Kuzmenko, Technical Director of Polymetal Management Company JSC Olga Antipina, Managing Director of Omolon Gold Mining Company LLC Vladimir Bloshkin, Chief Engineer of Omolon Gold Mining Company LLC Vadim Vorobyov. They were the ones who evaluated the results of the future engineers' work.

Thus, the jury took into account the original solution of the case, which allows for maximum technological effect. It must also be competently and correctly justified.

In addition, the participants had to take into account key and additional factors, provide a comprehensive methodology for economic assessment, and take into account the maximum number of indicators and influencing factors.

The solution also had to take into account economic risks, and the application of the case should allow for the effect of its implementation.

It should be noted that the qualifying stages of the Case-in International Engineering Championship, a unique educational project aimed at identifying and supporting the most promising and motivated mining students and postgraduates, will be held until May.

During its operation, the championship will cover 47 leading technical universities from 34 regions of Russia and the CIS countries.

A source: http://magadanmedia.ru/news/575639/