Partner universities and young specialists of the System Operator became the winners of the CASE-IN championship

The winners and prize-winners of the Student League in the field of "Electric Power Industry" and the League of Young Specialists of the XII season were determined in Moscow. The International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", which is held with the support of the presidential platform "Russia – the land of opportunities". The entire podium was occupied by students of partner universities and the main university of the System Operator.

On May 28, 10 student teams from Russia and Belarus, who met in the final "CASE-IN" at the University of Science and Technology MISIS, presented to the industry community and the expert commission of the championship their solutions to the case "Application of artificial intelligence technologies in the electric power industry", which was developed by specialists of the System Operator. The participants were asked to analyze the digital technologies used by JSC "System Operator of the Unified Energy System" and propose innovative technological solutions for managing the energy system.

By presenting to the experts the result of teamwork on an engineering task, the participants fought not only to win the prestigious intellectual championship: the champions and prize-winners of the Student League get the opportunity on preferential terms to enroll in master's and postgraduate studies at partner universities, complete internships and internships or get a job in companies in the industry.

The expert Commission highly appreciated the case solution proposed by the team of the North Caucasus Federal University, a partner university of JSC System Operator of the Unified Energy System - the guys were ahead of their finalist rivals and became the winners of the Student League of the XII season of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN". 

In second place is the team "The Power of Youth" (Platov South Russian State Polytechnic University). In addition, the guys won a prize for the best video game. The team members are studying at the university's master's degree program in the training of specialists for operational dispatch management, which is implemented by the System Operator on the basis of the reference university.

The third place was taken by the Pride team (National Research University "MEI" – partner university of JSC "System Operator of the Unified Energy System"), she also received a special prize of the expert commission "Breakthrough solution".

"It's not the first year I've been watching the participants of the Student League of the Championship and I see that every year students' interest in solving engineering cases and their level of technical creativity are growing. It's great that the championship not only helps talented students prove themselves, but also helps them get into the industry community," said Ilya Moskvin, chairman of the expert commission of the championship, a leading expert of the Personnel Management Department of JSC United Energy System System Operator.

Elena Tretyakova, Deputy Director for Personnel of JSC System Operator of the Unified Energy System, took part in the awarding ceremony of the winners and prize-winners of the Student League.

"Every year at the championship, students solve cases based on the materials of the System Operator and gain unique experience working with practical tasks on the most pressing and pressing issues of the modern electric power industry. And, of course, it should be noted that this year the entire podium was taken by the teams of partner universities and the main university of the System Operator. Over the ten years of our partnership with the championship, dozens of students from our flagship universities and partner universities have become champions and prize-winners of the CASE-IN Student League, many of them now work for JSC United Energy System System Operator and successfully solve the tasks facing the company," said Elena Tretyakova, congratulating the winners of the championship.

The Ministry of Energy noted the System Operator with a letter of thanks for the long-term support of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" and the contribution to personnel training for fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes and the construction industry of Russia.

The next day, on May 29, the final battle of the championship took place at the same site of the University of Science and Technology MISIS: 17 teams of the League of Young Professionals competed for the victory.

The team of the KIUM100 System Operator confidently rose to the podium of the CASE-IN, taking 3rd place and winning the video card contest. The team included young specialists from the operational area of the Branch of JSC "System Operator of the Unified Energy System" ODE to the South Veronika Bershatskaya, Dmitry Chub, John Burlak and Mikhail Avakian. The mentor of the team was Sergey Kornov, Head of the Market Support Service of the Branch of JSC "System Operator of the Unified Energy System" of the UDE of the South. KIUM100, which represented the System Operator in the main industry engineering competition, became the winner of the corporate case championship of JSC System Operator of the Unified Energy System in early May, in which 11 teams participated.

"The corporate championship of the System Operator gave us the opportunity to pick up the pace before the upcoming League of Young Professionals. Thanks to the corporate stage of the championship, our KIUM100 team understood the principles and approaches to working in solving cases in the League of Young Professionals, which is strikingly different from the Student League. I would like to note that the League of Young Specialists allows teams from the mineral resource complex and the fuel and energy complex to check the level of their competencies and test their skills when solving the same case. The KIUM100 team had to single–handedly defend the honor of the electric power industry," said the captain of the team, deputy leader of the Youth Council of the ODU of the South. Veronica Bershatskaya.

"We managed to win a prize thanks to our extensive experience in participating in the championship and solving cases – some team members have been involved in CASE-IN since they were students – a creative approach and a radically redesigned information presentation strategy. Since the expert commission included representatives of two industries, the KIUM100 team made a strategically correct decision by choosing an information submission option that was understandable to all expert judges and allowed them to fairly evaluate our decision," the team member added Dmitry Chub.

Reference. The system operator has been a strategic partner of the Electric Power Industry direction of the CASE-IN championship since 2015. Within the framework of the "Electric Power Industry" branch, the System Operator's specialists participate in the development of assignments, and also serve on expert commissions. Three representatives of JSC "System Operator of the Unified Energy System" were included in the 2018 Hall of Fame of the International CASE-IN Championship in the experts category.

The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship is a system of competitions for solving engineering cases for schoolchildren, students and young specialists in the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes, the nuclear industry and related industries. The championship is included in the platform of the NGO "Russia – the land of Opportunities" and is implemented in accordance with the Action Plan aimed at popularizing the working and engineering professions, approved by Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 366-r dated March 5, 2015.

The Championship is supported by the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Communal Services of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs and the NGO "Russia - the Land of Opportunities".

The organizers of the championship are Reliable Change Foundation, Non-profit Partnership "Youth Forum of Mining Leaders" and AstraLogica LLC. The CASE-IN Championship is included in the Science to Win initiative and the plan for the Russian Decade of Science and Technology 2022-2031.

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