Industry youth of the Smolensk region will receive opportunities for development at the CASE-IN championship

Schoolchildren and students of the Smolensk region are invited to participate in the XIII season of the International Engineering Championship CASE-IN. The championship is supported by the presidential platform "Russia is a land of Opportunity" and is included in the initiative "The Science of Winning" the plan of the Decade of Science and Technology in Russia.

Competitions are held in three age categories: among schoolchildren, students and young professionals.

The Student League is traditionally distinguished by its scale — in the new season, in-person qualifying stages will be held in 83 specialized universities, and students from more than 200 universities will take part in them. There are 11 industry areas in this league: architecture, design, construction, and housing and communal services; biotechnology; geological exploration; mining; mining machinery and equipment; metallurgy; petrochemistry; oil and gas; electric power; design engineering; thermal power engineering.
This year's partner of the Championship was a branch of the National Research University "MEI"in Smolensk. It will host the qualifying stages in the following areas "Electric power industry».

Student teams will have to develop projects to introduce innovations into production, which should become an impetus for achieving technological sovereignty and forming a strong and competitive national economy. The strongest teams of the qualifying competition will represent the region in the semi-finals. The authors of the best ideas will receive a ticket to the final stage of the Championship.

The school league will bring together the youngest participants of the CASE-IN championship. Students of grades 9-11 in the framework of the direction "Engineering and technical creativity" they will prepare layouts, digital drawings, digital projects in the format of modeling, 3D printing, IT solutions, etc. The winners will be determined in the spring in an online format. Teams of high school students will solve cases from the SIBUR partner company as part of the qualifying competitions. The guys who successfully completed the task will go to the full-time final of the CASE-IN.

This is not the first time that Smolensk schoolchildren have participated in the CASE-IN engineering Championship. In 2024, a team from the 33rd Smolensk School earned the right to present their project in the final of the Autumn Cup of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship among the 16 strongest teams from all over the country.

The League of Young Professionals is open to active young employees of companies in the region. Participants will develop solutions on topics relevant to the Russian industry that will allow their employers to improve production performance.

« The industries in which our participants compete are not only the basis of the country's economic security, but also the areas where innovations are created and developed. That is why the next season of CASE-IN will be dedicated to the theme “ Technological innovation ” . It is important that all the tasks that the participants solve are not theory, but real practical engineering cases of Russian industry leaders. ", – said the founder and co-chairman of the organizing committee of the CASE-IN championship Artem Korolev.

The final of the CASE-IN championship will be held in Moscow at the end of May 2025. Young and future engineers will present the final versions of their solutions to the industry community, share their experiences with colleagues, receive valuable advice from experts and will be able to establish professional contacts for further implementation of their ideas.

The champions and prize–winners of the Student League will enroll in master's and postgraduate studies at partner universities on preferential terms, as well as complete internships and internships in partner companies with the possibility of further employment. The winning students will receive additional points to the results of the Unified State Exam when applying to bachelor's degree programs at one of the partner universities of the championship. The award for the best young professionals will be career and professional growth opportunities, as well as inclusion in the managerial personnel reserve of companies. In addition, the authors of the best ideas will receive invitations to industry youth educational forums.

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