Volgograd residents are expected at the CASE-IN championship

Schoolchildren and students of the Volgograd region are invited to participate in the XIII season The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship. The championship is supported by the presidential platform "Russia – the land of opportunities" and it is included in the "Science to Win" initiative of the plan for the Decade of Science and Technology in Russia.

The purpose of the championship is to popularize engineering and technical education and train specialists for companies in the fuel and energy complex, the Moscow Energy Complex, the nuclear industry and related industries. Participants will learn how to solve real production tasks and compete for the main prizes – additional USE points, paid internships and career prospects.

"In three years, the demand for engineers has increased 2.5 times. The CASE-IN championship has become an effective tool for forming the personnel reserve of companies in the fuel and energy complex and related industries. Thus, according to the project, 90% of school-age participants enrolled in specialized universities, and a third of them used the additional USE points provided by the championship. Among the students, 30% of the participants received invitations to practice. 42% of young professionals have been promoted at work during the year," said Gennady Guryanov, Deputy General Director of ANO Russia – Land of Opportunities.

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 partners of the championship are Volgograd State Technical University, where the qualifying stage in the field of Petrochemistry will be held, and the Branch of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "National Research University "MEI" in Volzhsky, which will host competitions in the fields of Electric Power Engineering and Thermal Power Engineering.

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.

Students of the region regularly participate in the championship, and the teams of VolgSTU traditionally demonstrate high results: in 2022, future specialists in the field of petrochemistry took third place in the finals, and a year later they improved their performance and won silver.

The school league will bring together the youngest participants of the CASE-IN championship. Students of grades 9-11 in the field of "Engineering and technical creativity" 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.

Among the universities providing additional USE points to the strongest participants of the School League are Volgograd State Technical University, Volga Polytechnic Institute (branch) VolgSTU, Kamyshinsky Institute of Technology (branch) VolgSTU, Volgograd State University and a branch of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "National Research University "MEI" in Volzhsky.

 "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 the 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 Artem Korolev, Founder and co–chairman of the organizing committee of the CASE–IN championship.

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 International Engineering CASE-IN Championship is held with the support of the presidential platform "Russia – the land of Opportunities". The organizers of the championship are the Reliable Change Foundation, the Non-profit Partnership Youth Forum of Mining Leaders and AstraLogica LLC.

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