Nine teams of Kuzbass Polytechnic University will compete in the final of the CASE-IN championship in Moscow

From May 20 to 22, Moscow will host the final of the XIV season of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship, one of the largest student engineering competitions supported by the Presidential Platform. "Russia is a land of opportunity".

This year, the main theme of the season is "Technologies of the future". The final competitions will be held on the site University of Science and Technology MISIS. Teams from Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan and Belarus will travel to Moscow. A total of 208 teams will compete in the final, including 162 teams. Student League. Kuzbass State Technical University will be represented by nine teams at once:

• Thermoids – Pavel Fadeev, Elizaveta Ryabchenkova, Egor Yeremeyev and Anastasia Zhdanova – Thermal Power Engineering;
• "Geotime" – Vyacheslav Vinogradov, Vladimir Podya, Nikita Beloborodov and Dozurash Sanchai – Mining Industry;
• "NFFL" – Stepan Afonin, Nikita Rusakov, Ulyana Feoktistova and Mikhail Goncharov – Project Engineering;
• "Real intelligence" – Nikita Kirin, Nikolay Gaponov, Egor Alexandrovich – Project Engineering;
• Kuzbass Express – Anastasia Ustyuzhanina, Alexey Alyamkin, Muhammad Kurbanbayev and Yaroslav Avdeev – Electric Power Industry;
• "MILA" – Elizaveta Fil, Alexey Ivanov, Artyom Kuznetsov and Irina Dotsenko – Petrochemistry;
• «OverJobs» – Stas Yakushev, Vladimir Sakharov, Artur Salmin and Pavel Ilyin – Digital Automation;
• Kuzbass State Technical University
• "The Mountain of Winds" – Svetlana Chilimova, Ksenia Tuzikova and Alena Egorova (KuzSTU branch in Prokopyevsk) – Mining Machinery and Equipment;
• «Deep Code» – Alexander Komarov, Egor Alekseevskikh, Valeria Mizina and Diana Melnikova (KuzSTU branch in Prokopyevsk) – Mining machinery and Equipment.

The members of the THERMOEDS team, who reached the finals in the field of Thermal Power Engineering, received a unique opportunity to compete for the chance to complete an internship at Gazprom Energoholding LLC.

The company is a strategic partner of the direction and develops real production cases for the participants related to the modern challenges of the energy industry. This year's assignment was devoted to developing a digital process model of a thermal power plant unit and creating a digital twin of one of its critical components.

Team Captain Pavel Fadeev noted that participation in the championship helps students not only to test their knowledge, but also to gain important professional experience: "Every year the quality of studying tasks in the case increases, which increases the complexity of their implementation. But at the same time, during the solution, the team receives more and more new knowledge and competencies that will help them become in-demand specialists in their industry in the present and future. I would like to thank the organizers for their invaluable experience in solving production problems and for the opportunity to speak to numerous experts in the field of energy, which served as the foundation for the formation and development of my professional career."

Pavel has been participating in the CASE-IN since 2023. According to him, the championship final is also an opportunity to exchange ideas with students from other regions of the country.

The final of the XIV season of the International Engineering Championship CASE-IN will last three days:

• May 20 – Student League competitions in the fields of Architecture, Design, Construction and Housing and Communal Services, Petrochemistry, Biotechnology, Thermal Power Engineering and Design Engineering;
• May 21 – "Electric Power Industry", "Mining" and "Geological Exploration";
• May 22 – "Metallurgy", "Digital Automation", "Oil and gas business" and "Mining machinery and equipment".

The winners and prize-winners of the championship will be able to complete paid internships in partner companies with the possibility of further employment, as well as receive preferential conditions for admission to master's and postgraduate studies at leading universities in the country.

Reference. The organizers of the CASE-IN championship are the Reliable Change Foundation, the Presidential Platform Russia – the Land of Opportunities, the Non-profit Partnership Youth Forum of Mining Leaders and AstraLogica LLC. The presidential platform "Russia – the Land of Opportunities" was created on the initiative of Russian President Vladimir Putin on May 22, 2018. The mission of the platform is to create the future of Russia, opening equal opportunities for everyone.

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