Kuzbass youth will once again try to succeed at the CASE-IN championship

Students and schoolchildren of Kuzbass 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.

Student League Traditionally, it differs in 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 will be Kuzbass State Technical University named after T.F. Gorbachev, which will become a platform for conducting qualifying stages in the following areas "Mining", "Electric power Industry", Petrochemistry, «Project engineering" and "Thermal Power Engineering" (responsible in the directions), as well as the Siberian State Industrial University: competitions in the fields of Mining and Metallurgy will be held here.

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.

Kuzbass students have been participating in the Championship regularly since its foundation, having won many cups and medals during this time. The teams of Kuzbass State Technical University won bronze in 2014 and became champions in 2024. Future mining industry specialists of the KuzSTU branch in Prokopyevsk won in 2022 and 2023, and also took silver in 2024. The team of the Siberian State Industrial University took the third place in 2016.

"We decided that since it is not always possible to supply diesel fuel by land transport (for example, due to weather conditions), then why not use an aboveground one," Anastasia Ustyuzhanina, a student at KuzSTU and the winner of CASE-IN-2024, shares the nuances of the development. – We propose to transport diesel fuel for mining and processing plants on cargo airships. We solved the transport problem and determined the most optimal number of airships and the route for them. Based on the daily demand for diesel fuel of each mining company and their meteorological conditions, we determined the amount of diesel fuel that will be delivered daily in order to offset the risk that there may be non-flying weather on some day. Experts from ALROSA noted that our solution has the prospect of being implemented in production."

The winners from KuzSTU are confident that they were able to take the leading place thanks to an unconventional approach to the task. During the championship, they gained the ability to see the problem from a different angle and gained new knowledge in the diamond mining industry.

"We remember the final with a cool and unique atmosphere. It was great when guys from different regions united under their flags and sang with the performers," the students shared their emotions. – My team and I will definitely take part in the main CASE-IN-2025 season and we want to try our hand at the Electric Power Industry. The goal is always the same – to win."

KuzSTU, as well as its branches in Belovo, Mezhdurechensk and Prokopyevsk, Yurginsky Institute of Technology (branch) Tomsk Polytechnic University, in addition, the winners and prize-winners of the league will be given privileges when applying to graduate and postgraduate studies.

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.

Schoolchildren of the region, as well as students, have a successful experience of participating in the Championship. The teams of the Melnichenko Kemerovo Foundation's UniqUe Talent Center (Kemerovo) annually confirm their high class. Among the recent achievements of its students are victories in 2020 and 2024 and silver in 2020, 2022 and 2024. The students of MBOU Lyceum No. 89 (Kemerovo) demonstrate high results, they have won three bronze awards in various categories in 2021 and the championship in 2019. Students of secondary schools No. 44 and 93, Lyceum No. 23, gymnasium No. 41 (all in Kemerovo) also rose to the podium in different years.

"The championship teaches you to listen to the opinions of experienced and qualified specialists, as well as to cope with your emotions. After all, it is very difficult to perform when you feel the importance of this event. Despite all the difficulties, we defended the case at the highest level," said Egor Beresnev from the UnikUm Center, the 2024 silver medalist. "At the championship, I established many professional contacts, met with representatives of companies working in the fields of technology, production and innovation. We discussed possible cooperation, and I hope for further cooperation and exchange of experience with these professionals."

Among the universities providing additional USE points to the strongest participants of the School League are KuzSTU, as well as its branches in Belovo, Mezhdurechensk and Prokopyevsk, Kemerovo State University, Siberian State Industrial University, Yurginsky Institute of Technology (branch) of the National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University.

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.

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