The winners of the All-Russian Geofest Festival are preparing to participate in the "CASE-IN"!

The team of the Faculty of Geology and Geography of TSU became the winner of the All-Russian festival "Geofest" in the nomination "Geological Exploration". During the competition, the students completed a series of works aimed at the search, discovery and preparation for the industrial development of the Tansyvai copper deposit in Khakassia.

The TSU team included bachelor's and master's students from the GGF, including three winners of the "I am a Professional" Olympiad in geology.: Tamara Trumm, Ekaterina Osipova, Kirill Sokhorev, Ruslan Irgalin, Ostap Shimko and Victor Kozykin. The supervisor of the team was a graduate student Elvira Kungulova.

– The engineering tasks were performed at a virtual training ground, the conditions of which are as close to reality as possible.,– says the representative of the team, a fourth-year student of the GGF Tamara Trumm. – Our tasks included mapping the territory, selecting and describing rock samples, assessing the conditions of the deposit structure and forecasting its reserves. 

According to the jury, the TSU team coped with this task better than the other participants. At the same time, GGF students had to compete with strong competitors – teams from classical and specialized universities, including the Siberian State University of Geosystems and Technologies, Moscow Polytechnic University, Rudn University, Russian State University of Oil and Gas.Gubkin University, MGRI-RGGRU, which, together with the Rossotrudnichestvo agency, organized the festival, and other universities.

Practical experience helped the geological students to successfully complete the tasks of the competition. During their production practices, they have already performed similar tasks, but not on virtual landfills, but in real life: in the summer of 2018, they worked in Kamchatka, the Krasnoyarsk Territory and other regions of Russia. For example, Ruslan Irgalin (4th year) was engaged in the search for a gold deposit in the Eastern Sayan Mountains.

– It is the production practice that helps to assimilate theoretical knowledge., – He says Ruslan. – If at first you have a mess in your head, then after the expeditions the information is structured, you begin to understand what you are doing and why.

In addition to exploration work, during the festival, students competed in decoding aerospace information, modeling mining operations, and solving other cases provided by leading Russian companies.

The next major competition that the GGF team plans to participate in will be the prestigious International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN". In 2017, students of the geological exploration faculty of TSU became its debutants, were able to reach the finals and win the bronze medal.

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