The school team of the System Operator took the second place in the final of the CASE-IN championship

The school team of the System Operator became the silver medalist in the "Energy Classes" direction of the School League of the Autumn Cup of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship, the final of which was held as part of the Youth Day of the international forum "Russian Energy Week – 2026" in Moscow. The championship is held with the support of the Presidential Platform "Russia – the land of opportunities".

The award for the second place was presented to the children by Artem Korolev, director of the Reliable Change Foundation, founder of CASE-IN, and Andrey Bogdantsev, project manager of the Presidential Platform "Russia – the Land of Opportunities."

Reaching the finals was preceded by a serious competitive selection process: a total of 110 teams took part in the Autumn Cup. The guys successfully completed the engineering case and took second place in the correspondence qualifying stage, beating most of the competitors and having the opportunity to present their solution in the final.

In the final of the championship, the team "More energy, fewer words" ("BAMS") competed with 11 more teams of high school students who became the best according to the results of the correspondence qualifying stage. The team included the children of the company's employees.

During the final, students of grades 10-11 presented to the expert jury the solution of an engineering case modeled on the basis of a real production situation in the electric power industry. This format allows high school students to go beyond the standard curriculum, try on the role of engineers and gain their first experience of teamwork on complex industry tasks. The face-to-face defense of the projects took place within the framework of the Youth Day of the Russian Energy Week (REN).

A significant contribution to the success of the BEMS team was made by the support of a mentor from the System Operator. Ekaterina Sovban, Chief Specialist of the Operational Regime Planning Service, helped the students structure their ideas and competently argue their decision from a professional point of view.

"The guys did a great job! We took a responsible approach to the implementation of the case, worked out the final decision in detail, paid attention to the design and constantly rehearsed. At the defense, the guys performed very well and answered even the most tricky questions of the expert commission. Special thanks to their parents, our colleagues from the branches, for their support of the children's initiative and involvement in the process. Thanks to such events, the System Operator creates a foundation for the future, turning the profession into a vocation and creating dynasties of power engineers," she noted Ekaterina Sovban.

The Energy Classes section of the School League of the Autumn Cup of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship, which is organized by the Reliable Shift Charitable Foundation with the support of the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, is a team competition for students of energy classes created with the support of fuel and energy companies. The project is being implemented as part of a strategic initiative to develop the Russian School of Engineering and provide highly qualified personnel to industry enterprises.

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