A team of schoolchildren from Svobodny entered the top ten at the final of the CASE-IN championship

The Formula of the Future team from the SIBUR class of Gymnasium No. 9 in Svobodny successfully competed in the final of the Autumn Cup of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship. The staff of the Amur Gas Chemical Complex provided expert assistance in the preparation of the children.

In the final, where only 14 teams out of 148 school league participants from all over Russia qualified, Formula of the Future took 9th place. The students had to offer an innovative biotechnological solution for industrial wastewater treatment in the Alabuga special Economic zone. The students developed a reverse osmosis-based system using quorum sensing, the "communication language" of bacteria, which significantly improved cleaning efficiency and extended the service life of the equipment.

The jury especially noted the impeccable economic rationale: the project pays off in less than a year and a half, with an IRR of 65.3% and annual revenue of 14.3 million rubles. Ilyuza Karimova, chief expert of the Chief Technologist Service of the Amur Gas Processing Plant, helped to perform the calculations. And Oleg Ferapontov, also the chief expert of the AGCC Chief Technologist service, accompanied the team at all stages — from choosing a topic to preparing a clear and convincing defense, in which tenth graders talked "just about the difficult."

The team's mentors at the school were Margarita Stasyuk, a chemistry teacher, and Lyubov Velikaya, the homeroom teacher of the SIBUR class. Interestingly, this season Gymnasium No. 9 presented seven teams at once, all of which entered the first half of the overall ranking.

The success of Formula of the Future is not the first for the school: last year, the Creators of Ideas team took first place in the finals, proposing a project for the production of polypropylene packaging from the Amur Gas Processing Plant. Today, high school students support their younger colleagues by sharing their experiences and inspiring them with new achievements.

Meanwhile, the team of the Amur Gas Chemical Complex "AmurTeam" is also waiting for the final tests of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship. They will compete in the League of Young Professionals.

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