Young engineers of St. Petersburg are among the winners of the "CASE-IN" School League

Students of St. Petersburg Engineering and Technology School No. 777 became winners and prize-winners of the School League of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", implemented with the support of the presidential platform "Russia – the land of opportunities". The students achieved success in individual and team competitions in the field of "Engineering and technical creativity".

The CASE-IN championship is included in the "Science to Win" initiative and the plan for the Decade of Science and Technology, implemented within the framework of the federal project "Social Elevators for Everyone" of the national project "Education". The organizers of the championship are the Reliable Change Foundation, the Non-profit Partnership Youth Forum of Mining Leaders and the AstraLogica organization. The project is being implemented using a grant from the President of the Russian Federation for the development of civil society.

During the School League competitions, students in grades 3-11 were engaged in engineering and technical creativity. In total, the contestants presented 150 projects and solutions.

The competitions in the field of "Engineering and technical creativity" were held in four categories. In two of them, the students of St. Petersburg Engineering and Technology School No. 777 had no equal.

In the nomination "Drawing and layout contest among students of grades 3-5", the strongest were Yaroslav Gusev and Egor Savelov who took the first and second places in the individual competition.

Yaroslav Gusev He produced a working model of the Boguchanskaya HPP in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The model is made on a scale of 1:200 and generates an electric current that lights an LED. Egor Savelov He developed the project "Ecocity concept: Waste recycling".

"I decided to install the plant on the site of the Novoselki landfill, near the village of Levashovo, in order to rid the Primorsky and Vyborg districts of unpleasant odors so that people could breathe clean air freely. Egor explains in the presentation. – I created a model of an eco-city, proposed a concept for recycling garbage in order to get the maximum benefit from it. Garbage can preserve and increase the energy and thermal resources of a megacity".

A team competition was also held in the category "Drawing and layout contest among schoolchildren in grades 3-5." In it, the second place with the project "Fascinating Cooling Towers" was taken by the Double-headed Eagle team consisting of By Andrey Kucherov and Kirill Petukhov.

"We have studied the scheme of the structure and the principle of operation of the tower cooling tower, found out its advantages and disadvantages in the energy sector.- the young designers explain in their work. – We learned that cooling towers are harmless, but very useful assistants in the energy sector. We realized that they do not harm the environment and at the same time are economical in their use.".

Champions and prize-winners will receive diplomas, valuable gifts and invitations to industry youth educational forums in the All-Russian children's centers "Eaglet" or "Smena".

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