Winning the CASE-IN championship helped the Muscovite to score 400 points on the Unified State Exam and enroll in a specialized university.

In the summer of 2024, Alexandra Ogloblina, the winner of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship, became the only Russian applicant to score 400 points on the Unified State Exam. Now the girl is successfully studying at the university and is planning to take part in the case competition again.

After graduating from Bauman Engineering School No. 1580 in Moscow, Alexandra had to take the Unified State Exam in 4 subjects: Russian, specialized mathematics, computer science and physics. Working on case solutions during the CASE-IN championship and high-quality training at school allowed the girl to score the maximum possible number of points on exams and enroll in the Bauman Moscow State Technical University.

I decided to try my hand at Alexander Ogloblin's CASE-IN for the first time in 2021. Having failed to achieve the desired result, a year later the girl again became a participant in the championship, and this time triumphantly. In the Autumn Cup, she, along with other students of school No. 1580, Ivan Grebennikov, Konstantin Zeigman and Vladimir Revin, joined the Bunnies team and became the winner of the School League.

The experience of solving real production problems helped the high school students to succeed, the members of the winning team admitted. «The championship provides a great experience of working in a team, teaches you to search and analyze a huge amount of information, structure it, highlight the main thing, and also offer non-standard solutions. It's also an invaluable performance experience, and in our opinion, it's a very useful skill that will definitely come in handy in the future.", - they told me.

In the qualifying stage of the competition, about 190 teams from Moscow competed against high school students. students in grades 9-11 from almost 160 schools. In the final, held in December 2022 in Moscow, the guys managed to beat the top 15 teams from all over Russia, successfully presenting a case study solution to the expert community consisting of leading experts from industry companies and organizations.: "Industry 4.0: new competencies".

On assignment from SIBUR, the students developed the concept of an educational platform for staff training and development based on Industry 4.0 technologies and assessed how the introduction of Industry 4.0 technologies would affect SIBUR's ESG ratings.

"We proposed a concept where we combined existing solutions with our new ideas., - Muscovites told us about teamwork. – The educational platform will be based on a neural network that will allow us to build a personalized approach to employee training to ensure their personal and career growth."

The champions shared the nuances of teamwork: "Kostya and Sasha were responsible for working out the concept, Vanya was responsible for information search and video editing, and Vova was responsible for information analysis and presentation design. Throughout the work on the case, we were assisted by two mentors: our physics teacher Yulia Kazakova and mentor Arkhip Biryukov. Thank them so much for this! They gave us valuable advice, criticized our work when it was necessary, and supported us in difficult moments."

According to the mentor of the team, Yulia Kazakova, at the CASE-IN championship, young people acquired valuable competencies that later helped them enroll in specialized universities. "Some of the team members entered the Higher School of Economics, where they had to solve cases. They said that if they had not previously participated in the CASE-IN, they would not have been able to cope with the tasks. You can be proud of us, your winners", - she noted.

The winners of the School League at the championship mastered the skills of cross-functional interaction, learned to trust each other, take responsibility for their work, and overcome problems together in order to achieve their goals. They are not going to stop there and plan to join the Student League.

"Participating in a CASE-IN is like jumping off a ski jump: you don't know how this jump will end, but the process is exciting", - the young people confessed.