Students from Novocherkassk won the champion's cup CASE-IN

For the first time in the history of the championship, representatives of the Faculty of Geology, Mining and Oil and Gas Engineering of YURSPU (NPI) rose to the highest step of the podium in the final of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship in the field of Mining. This event took place on May 21 in Moscow.

Two student teams represented the South Russian State Polytechnic University (NPI) in the final of the XIV season of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship in the fields of Mining and Electric Power Engineering. The large–scale final was held from May 20 to 22 in the capital of our Motherland with the support of the Presidential Platform "Russia - the land of Opportunities".

These days, 760 future and current specialists from leading industries in Russia and 14 foreign countries will present their breakthrough solutions to experts, focusing on the key theme of the season – "Technologies of the Future".

"CASE-IN solves the real production tasks of leading companies and unites a large–scale community of young professionals," said Andrey Betin, CEO of the Russia – Land of Opportunities Presidential Platform, Rector of the Senezh Management Workshop. – 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 students gained professional competencies, practical experience, analytical thinking skills and cross-functional interaction. I am sure that soon we will see in them leaders of key areas who are ready to solve strategically important tasks for the benefit of Russia."

"The core of the championship is the Student League," said Artyom Korolev, founder and co–chairman of CASE–IN. "The face–to-face qualifying stages were held at 56 partner universities, and we also held 11 open stages in which students from all universities could participate without restrictions."

Thus, representatives of 70 universities from Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan and Belarus came to Moscow for the final.

Among the 162 teams competing in 13 areas are two teams of Novocherkassk polytechnics, which became the best according to the results of the university selection.

In the direction of "Electric Power Industry", the NPI was represented by the "Short-Circuited" team The team consists of Danila Denisko, Evgenia Dyachenko and Dmitry Koptsev. In a difficult struggle, where the fate of each place was decided by literally hundredths of a point, energetes became the ninth.

The triumph on the day of the finals awaited the Jade Mine team: The guys won in the Mining field. An experienced team of polytechnicians – Captain Leonid Vasiliev, project economist Victoria Kudinova and analyst Arina Verigina – convinced the experts that their state–of-the-art technological solution for eliminating rock deposits at the Udachny underground mine of Alrosa was the best available.

"Everything went great! – Leonid Vasiliev, captain of the Jade Mine team, comments on the event. – The rival teams also offered a number of interesting solutions. But, as we understood, it is the presentation of information and the quality of presentation preparation that is of great importance. We were well acquainted with our material, we were guided by it, we talked, and did not read from a sheet. And this was especially noted by the experts, and they also gave us feedback – they expressed their opinions on how else to approach the solution and what to improve. We are very happy about our success!"

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