Future power engineers from Novocherkassk – winners of the EuroChem Hackathon

A team of students from the Faculty of Energy of YURSPU (NPI) took silver in the final of the EuroChem Hackathon, which was held from July 16 to 18 in Moscow under the auspices of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship.

In total, more than 200 Russian university students and employees of JSC MHC EuroChem took part in the Hackathon. The EuroChem Hackathon is an All–Russian case-solving competition aimed at identifying promising students to replenish the staff of JSC MHC EuroChem with new strong personnel, as well as at developing professional competencies among young employees of the organization.

At the qualifying stage, 46 teams, as well as individual participants, young specialists solved tasks in one of the following areas: "Improving efficiency and productivity at enterprises", "Improving production processes" and "Innovation development/digitalization".

Under the spectacular name "Perspektiva", 3rd-year students of the Faculty of Energy Nikita Purshev, Timofey Chernyshenko and Vyacheslav Zagatny competed in the Hackathon. Alexander Sergeyevich Zasypkin, senior lecturer at the Department of Electric Power Plants and Electric Power Systems, became the mentor of the polytechnic team.

11 teams made it to the finals, including the NPI team, as well as one individual participant. Following the results of the qualifying stage, the best contestants were invited to Moscow, where they presented their final projects to the expert commission of JSC MHC EuroChem and LLC Digital Technologies and Platforms.

According to the results of the evaluation of projects in the direction of "Improving efficiency and productivity at enterprises", the team from Novocherkassk Polytechnic University took the honorable second place. As representatives of the strongest participants of the Hackathon, the guys were awarded the opportunity to speak at a Scientific and Technical conference to be held as part of the EuroChem Young Professionals Forum in Sochi this fall.

NPI students received high marks from experts, valuable prizes, as well as the opportunity to complete internships and internships at EuroChem enterprises.

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