Participants of the School League of the CASE-IN championship increase the efficiency and safety of production

128 strongest teams of high school students have developed solutions within the framework of the School League Autumn Cup The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship with the support of the presidential platform "Russia – the land of opportunities". 25 teams of high school students from 15 cities advanced to the next stage of the competition.

In the fall of 2024, participants of the School League of the CASE-IN championship not only solve cases on the main theme of the XII season, "Lean Manufacturing", but also get acquainted with modern industrial enterprises and specialties and get the opportunity to decide on a future profession. The league's partner is the Alabuga SEZ.

More than 200 teams registered to participate in the correspondence qualifying stage, and only 128 teams from 35 regions of Russia managed to solve the case and accepted participation in economic strategy Business Cats.

The participating teams represented 118 schools from 59 cities and towns, and Kemerovo became the leader – high school students from 15 Kuzbass schools worked on the task. Also, 7 schools from Moscow and Rostov-on-Don delegated their teams. Ulan-Ude was represented by teams from 6 schools.

By solving a task dedicated to the creation of printed circuit board production for residents of the Alabuga SEZ, the contestants learned how to apply the latest solutions that make production productive, promising, optimal and safe for both workers and the environment. Among other things, they studied lean manufacturing tools, delved into industrial safety issues, reviewed the process of designing and manufacturing printed circuit boards, and also offered recommendations for optimization.

According to the decision of the expert commission, 25 teams entered the next stage of the competition - these are schoolchildren from the cities of Vorkuta, Gubkinsky, Yekaterinburg, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, Kumertau, Leninsk-Kuznetsky, Moscow, Nizhnevartovsk, Samara, Svobodny, Smolensk, Yaroslavl, as well as the village of Zhigalovo in the Irkutsk region.

Now the young engineers will present solutions to the experts of the remote qualifying stage and answer their questions, and the 12 strongest teams will advance to the finals.

The final of the Autumn Cup The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship It will be held on December 9, 2024 in Moscow. Students will present their final decisions to the industry community, receive advice for personal and professional development, and will also be able to learn from the experience and bold ideas of students and young professionals from companies all over Russia. 

Champions and winners of the School League are waiting for additional USE points for admission to bachelor's degree programs at one of the partner universities of the championship and trips to the branch educational shift #More brightly in the VDC "Eaglet" and the School of the young power engineer in the VDC "Smena".

The organizers of the CASE-IN Championship are  Reliable Change Foundation, Non-profit Partnership "Youth Forum of Mining Leaders" and AstraLogica LLC.

The championship is included in the "Science to Win" initiative and the plan The Decade of Science and Technology, which takes place in Russia in 2022-2031.

The CASE-IN championship is being implemented within the framework of the federal project "Social Elevators for Everyone" of the national project "Education".