Three teams represent Tomsk Polytechnic University in the final of the CASE-IN championship

The final of the XIV International Engineering CASE-IN Championship is taking place in Moscow on May 20-22. Three student teams of Tomsk Polytechnic University are competing for victory in it.

This year, the main theme of the championship was "Technologies of the future". The organizers of the CASE-IN asked industry companies to create assignments for the participants of the Student League on real production situations. The cases for the participants were aimed at achieving technological sovereignty.

So, in the direction of "Teploenergetika" of the Student League, the "Little Hope" team will compete in the final of the championship. It consists of Master's degree students from the School of Energy Engineering. Evgeny Ananyev, Artyom Ovechkin, Dmitry Melikhov and Angelina Tkacheva. The results of the finals in this area will be announced on May 20.

On Thursday, May 21, the final tests on the "Electric Power Industry" will start. Here, the honor of TPU will be defended by the 6901 team, consisting of master's degree students from the School of Energy Engineering. This Maxim Bastrykin, Maria Sedeleva, Daria Syrovatskaya and Igor Umansky.

Finally, on Friday, May 22, the best in the field of "Oil and gas business" will be selected. Here, undergraduate students of the Engineering School of Natural Resources are recognized as CASE-IN finalists. Ilya Bessonov, Stanislav Gatilov, Stepan Chikurin and Nazar Chuprov is a member of the GasFlow team.

It is noted that in 2026, more than 6,000 people from Russia, as well as young people from 13 CIS and BRICS countries, took part in the championship. The final competition brought together 208 teams, including 162 teams in the Student League. The in-person qualifying stages were held on the basis of 56 partner universities, and 11 open stages were also held, in which students from all universities could participate without restrictions. As a result, students from 70 universities representing Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan and Belarus came to Moscow for the final. They will compete for the awards of the championship in 13 areas corresponding to the leading sectors of the Russian economy.

Among the awards for the champions and prize—winners of the Student League are preferential conditions for admission to master's and postgraduate studies at specialized universities, internships and internships with the possibility of further employment, as well as trips to industry youth educational forums.

The co-organizer of the CASE—IN championship is the presidential platform "Russia — the land of Opportunities". The project is included in the Science to Win initiative and the plan for the Decade of Science and Technology in Russia for 2022-2031.

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