Autumn CASE-IN Cup: the first finalists in the School League are determined

12 school teams from 8 regions of Russia made it to the final of the Autumn Cup The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship, which is supported by the presidential platform "Russia – the land of opportunities".

The school League in 2025 is held in two directions – the All-Russian competition among schoolchildren for solving engineering cases and "Thermal Power Engineering". High school students, solving assignments on the main theme of the XIII season, "Technological Innovations," come up with projects to introduce innovations into production, which should become an impetus for achieving technological sovereignty and forming a strong and competitive national economy.

As part of the correspondence qualifying stage of the All–Russian competition among schoolchildren for solving engineering cases, more than 130 teams consisting of students in grades 8-11, on behalf of a strategic partner, the Alabuga SEZ company, analyzed the company's existing infrastructure and developed innovative solutions for the introduction of biotechnologies into its facilities for subsequent modernization and development. The young researchers also had to show their ingenuity and erudition in the Business Cats business simulation.

An expert commission consisting of specialists from industry companies, teachers of educational organizations, representatives of public and scientific organizations, having reviewed the works of the contestants, identified 12 finalist teams.:

• "Engineers of the Future" (Kemerovo Talent Center ("UniqUe"), Kemerovo, Kemerovo region);
• "Cards, money, two cups" (Kemerovo Talent Center ("Unique"), Kemerovo, Kemerovo region);
• "Case&Cause" (Kemerovo Talent Center ("UniqUe"), Kemerovo, Kemerovo region);
• "Particle of the North" (MBOU "High School "Vysotka", Gubkinsky, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug);
• INNOVA (MBOU Secondary School 42, Nizhnevartovsk, Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug — Yugra);
• "Cerberus" (MKOU Zhigalovskaya secondary school No. 1 named after G.G. Malkov, p, Zhigalovo, Irkutsk region);
• "Formula of the future" (MOAU gymnasium No. 9, Svobodny, Amur region);
• "Kings of the block blast" (MBOU Lyceum "Constellation" No.131, Samara, Samara region);
• "Labyrinths of the mind" (MOAU "Gymnasium No. 9", Nazarovo, Krasnoyarsk Territory);
• "Coders of the Future" (MBOU Lyceum "Constellation" No.131, Samara, Samara region);
• Phoenix (MBOU Secondary School No. 84, MBOU Secondary School No. 45, MBOU Secondary School No. 11, Kemerovo, Kemerovo region);
• ATOM-13 (MAOU Secondary School No. 13, Serov, Sverdlovsk region).

Now the students will have to finalize the solutions and personally present them to the industry community in the final, which will take place. November 26, 2025 in Moscow. In addition, the finalists will receive career guidance events aimed at getting to know key professions and communicating with company executives.  

Champions and prize-winners will receive additional USE points for admission to bachelor's degree programs at one of the partner universities of the championship and the opportunity to go on specialized shifts at All-Russian children's centers.

The organizer of the All-Russian competition among schoolchildren for solving engineering cases is the National Research University "MEI". The project is being implemented with the grant support of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh. Grants).

The organizers of the CASE-IN Championship are Reliable Change Foundation, Non-profit Partnership "Youth Forum of Mining Leaders" and AstraLogica LLC.

Championship included in the Science to Win initiative and the plan The Decade of Science and Technology, which takes place in Russia in 2022-2031.

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