The youth of the Krasnoyarsk Territory will try to continue the winning traditions at the CASE-IN championship

Schoolchildren and students of the Krasnoyarsk Territory are invited to participate in the XIII season of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship. The championship is supported by the presidential platform "Russia is a Land of Opportunity" and 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.

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 Siberian Federal University, which will host the qualifying stages in the fields of "Electric Power Industry", "Petrochemistry", "Thermal Power Engineering", Architecture, design, construction and Housing and communal services", "Biotechnology".

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.

SIBFU student teams are among the most decorated in the Championship. Representatives of the region are particularly active in the field of Metallurgy: they have won in 2023 and 2024, as well as silver in 2022. Future specialists of the petrochemical industry, who became champions in 2024, are trying to keep up with their comrades.

The school league will bring together the youngest participants of the CASE-IN championship. Students of grades 3-11 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 (grades 9-11) 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.

An example for the participants of the new season from the Krasnoyarsk Territory is the "Triple Fast and Furious" team of Krasnoyarsk Gymnasium No. 9, which became the silver medalist of the All-Russian Engineering Case Solving Competition-2023, as well as the "Two Heads are Strength" team from the Moscow Secondary School. Ivan Yarygin of Sizaya village, Shushensky district, who became the third in the nomination "Competition of projects and layouts among schoolchildren in grades 6-8" in 2024. The bronze medalists completed a 1:550 scale model, on the example of which they presented the entire cycle of nuclear energy from ore extraction to the supply of the received energy to consumers.

The League of Young Professionals is also 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.

Undergraduates from the Institute of Oil and Gas of the Siberian Federal University and at the same time young employees of Slavneft-Krasnoyarsk Oil & Gas LLC won the final of the Autumn Cup of the League of Young Specialists in 2024. The champions proposed a system for implementing "lean manufacturing", which is based on the extraction of strontium carbonate from incidentally extracted water and the introduction of a digital production system to obtain the required volume of product. The extracted carbonate will produce metallic strontium, which is not mined in modern Russia. The global goal of the project is to ensure the technological sovereignty of the country in the face of global competition and the development of high technologies. Its large-scale implementation will allow not only to replace the volume of strontium imports, but also to enter the global market./

Mikhail Kotyukov, Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, spoke about the need for contests, the focus of which concerns the development of technological leadership in the country, at a meeting of the Presidential Council for Science and Education of the Russian Federation. As the head of the Russian State Council's commission on Technological leadership, Mikhail Kotyukov noted that achieving this national goal is impossible without an advanced system of engineering education. "I am sure that the youth of our region are ready to solve not theoretical tasks, but real practical engineering cases from Russian companies, which are just supposed to participate in the CASE-IN championship. And this experience will certainly benefit the region as a whole in the future."

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. The goals of the international engineering CASE-IN championship correspond to the task of the new national project "Youth and Children" in creating conditions for the self-realization of the younger generation of Russian citizens.

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