5 universities of the Volgograd region will provide additional USE scores to the winners of the School CASE-IN League

Schoolchildren of the Volgograd region can take part in the XIII season The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship and get additional USE points for admission to 5 universities in the region. To participate in the championship, you must register, complete the task and submit the decision no later than April 9th. Among the organizers of the championship  The presidential platform "Russia – the land of opportunities" The project is included in the "Science to Win" initiative of the plan for the Decade of Science and Technology in Russia.

The participants of the School League, as well as the entire championship, will solve cases and complete tasks on the main theme of the year "Technological Innovations".

The organizers offer participants tangible prospects for personal and professional growth, said Artem Korolev, founder and co-chairman of the organizing committee of the CASE-IN championship. In his opinion, at the CASE-IN, students will not only learn to think critically, overcome themselves and work in a team, but will also be able to take an important step in choosing a future profession and university for admission.

"The school League is gaining popularity, and this year we expect representatives from more than 280 schools at the competitions. We invite schools to the CASE-IN championship, which will increase the level of practical knowledge of students and become a significant addition to the existing educational program," said Artem Korolev.

High school students will be able to prove themselves in case solving and engineering creativity.

Students of grades 9-11 will compete in solving the case, they will have to fulfill the task of the SIBUR League partner company: to identify new types of raw materials and petrochemical products in their region. The qualifying stages of the competition will be held in correspondence format, and the strongest teams will come to the finals in Moscow at the end of May.

In engineering and technical creativity, children of grades 8-11 will prove themselves in one of two competitions. In the first competition, students will design technical devices in the format of modeling, 3D printing, IT projects and other formats on the assignment of the SEZ "Alabuga". The participants of another competition, initiated by EVRAZ, will create layouts, models and diagrams on the topic of mechanisms that facilitate human labor in industry.

In the field of Engineering and Technical Creativity, high school students can either develop a new project or use a previously created one. Experts will remotely evaluate the work of the participants, and the results will be announced in April 2025.

"The champions and prize–winners of the School League will receive additional USE points when applying to bachelor's degree programs at one of the 198 partner universities of the championship in 66 regions," says Artyom Korolev, founder and co-chairman of the CASE-IN organizing committee. "At the same time, some universities will award additional points not only for prizes, but also simply for participating in the championship."

In the Volgograd region, graduates will be able to enroll in 5 universities in the region.

In particular, the strongest participants will be Volgograd State Technical University and its branches in Volzhsky and Kamyshin, Volgograd State University and the Branch of the National Research University "MEI" in Volzhsky.

In addition to additional USE points, participants of the School League will receive preferences in the competition for a trip to the educational shifts #Together Brighter at the VDC "Eaglet" and the "School of Young Power Engineering" at the VDC "Smena".

The organizers of the CASE-IN championship are the Reliable Change Foundation, the Non-profit Partnership Youth Forum of Mining Leaders, AstraLogica LLC and the presidential platform Russia — the Land of Opportunities.

The project is included in the "Science to Win" initiative of the plan for the Decade of Science and Technology in Russia.

The championship is held as part of the implementation of the federal project "Russia – the land of opportunities" of the national project "Youth and Children".

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