Siberian Federal University became the venue for the qualifying stage of the CASE-IN championship

The Institute of Oil and Gas of the Siberian Federal University has become the venue for the qualifying stage of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship.

The participants were greeted by Alexander Sokolnikov, Acting Director of INiG: "I am glad to welcome the experts and participants of the international championship. Today, the SibFU Institute of Oil and Gas hosts 32 teams in four areas. The Siberian Federal University teams have always shown decent results and have repeatedly become winners. I hope we will continue this tradition this year."

Alexander Sokolnikov wished the participants success in their defense and progress to the next stage of the CASE-IN. This year, the Institute of Oil and Gas is hosting the qualifying stage of the engineering championship in the fields of Metallurgy, Petrochemistry, Oil and Gas Business and Biotechnology.

The opening of the championship ended with a performance by the creative dance group of the OF Institute. After the ceremony, all participants were divided into classrooms: they had to solve engineering cases on real production problems, developed based on materials from industry enterprises. After that, the teams presented their developments to the expert commission in the project protection format.

Winners of the qualifying stage:

1. Petrochemistry — Shift Catalysts team (Valery Cheusov, Arseniy Marusyuk, Danil Kuzmin);
2. Oil and gas business — The Oil Men team (Kirill Levishchev, Vladislav Belyavsky, Alexander Vorobyov, Nikita Mineev);
3. Metallurgy — Steel Solutions team (Alexey Ustinov, Alina Dorovskaya, Anastasia Bochkareva);
4. Biotechnology — NLMK team (Egor Grinev, Elena Klechkina, Milana Volkova, Diana Ladutko).

The winners of the championship will receive valuable prizes and the opportunity to complete internships, internships and jobs in industry companies. In addition, the winners will receive preferential admission to master's and postgraduate studies at leading universities in Russia.

In addition to SibFU, the championship is hosted by many other universities, including educational institutions in Belarus, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. The organizers of the International Engineering 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.

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