24 teams from Kaliningrad competed for victory in the qualifying stage of the CASE-IN championship

The qualifying stage of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship was held at KSTU.

The opening ceremony was attended by the rector of KSTU, V.A. Volkogon, who welcomed the participants of the qualifying stage, wished them victory and not to dwell on the results achieved.

The students formed 24 teams and were divided into several classrooms, where they defended their team decisions in the areas of Architecture, Design, Construction and Housing and Communal Services, Biotechnology, and Project Engineering before an authoritative jury of university professors and partner companies. 

The student teams have been preparing for this event for a month and a half. During this time, they have created projects to introduce innovations into production, which should become an impetus for achieving technological sovereignty and forming a strong and competitive Russian economy.

All tasks for the participants are based on the actual production situations of the key Russian partner companies of the championship.

In the field of Architecture, Design, Construction and Housing and Communal Services, the teams worked on the case of the Metropolis company. They needed to develop a concept for a hotel and tourist complex in a natural area.

The first place was taken by the 3+1 team. Its members are Valeria Sinyukova, Daria Odinikova, Alexandra Nosochevskaya, Alexandra Shilova, Anna Kostandova.

The prizes were also shared by the teams "Concrete Geniuses" (consisting of Anastasia Ushakova, Sofia Ovsyannikova, Victoria Kozhevnikova, Boris Koryakov, Alexander Eliseev and Anna Kulakova), who took second place, and "Stonemasons" (Alexander Morozov, Mikhail Kunich, Artem Klishchenko, Egor Potapov, Vyacheslav Tretyakov) – the third place.

The participants in the Biotechnology field had to complete a task from Tatneft, namely, to develop technologies for processing CO₂. 

The team called "Mole-equivalent", which included Vadim Karlov, Olesya Fedorova, Denis Yachnikov, won this competition.

The 2nd place in this field went to the Formula of the Future team (consisting of Vlada Oleinik, Dmitry Fedorov and Victoria Stenzler.

The honorable 3rd place went to the E.company team (consisting of Anna Gordin, Elina Lazareva and Polina Mirnaya.

In the field of "Project Engineering", the teams were engaged in the development of standard projects of mobile rapidly deployed complexes for oil spill response.

The 1st place in the fierce competition was taken by the Mashinostroiteley team, which included Regina Fomina, Dmitry Deshykh and Vladimir Kozlovsky.

The 2nd place was taken by the Nickel team (consisting of Ekaterina Butorina, Alexey Bondar, Egor Tsyganash and Daniil Permyakov.

The 3rd place went to the Innovators team (consisting of Egor Vasiliev, Vyacheslav Logvenkin and Rustam Zhambulatov).

Thus, the winning teams will represent KSTU in remote semi-finals in their industry areas.  The authors of the strongest solutions will receive tickets to the finals, which will be held in Moscow at the end of May 2025. 

Future finalists will not only present their finalized ideas to the industry community, but will also share their experiences with colleagues, receive valuable advice from experts, and establish professional contacts.

The champions and prize-winners of the Student League will have the opportunity to enroll in master's and postgraduate studies at specialized universities on preferential terms, complete internships and internships at partner companies, and also attend industry youth educational forums. 

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 International Engineering CASE-IN Championship is held with the support of the presidential platform "Russia – the land of Opportunities". The championship is supported by 170 major partners, from federal agencies, including the Ministry of Energy of Russia, the Ministry of Construction of Russia, the Ministry of Labor of Russia, the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia, the Ministry of Education of Russia, Rosmolodezh, to companies in the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes, the oil and gas, petrochemical and nuclear industries, metallurgy, architectural and construction design and other industries.

The partners of the championship prepare assignments for the participants based on real production situations, and their key specialists act as experts and evaluate the decisions of the teams at the qualifying stages and in the finals.

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