A ticket to a great future: how the CASE-IN Engineering Championship helps young people

We are talking about the largest practice-oriented competition in Russia and the CIS countries for solving engineering cases on the air of Komsomolskaya Pravda Radio

M. Antonov:

- Friends, today we have two specially invited guests for a special event that we will try to highlight and tell you about today: the CASE-IN International Engineering Championship. This is the largest practice-oriented competition in Of Russia and countries CIS to solve engineering cases.

Visiting us Artem Korolev, founder and Co-chairman of the organizing committee of the international engineering championship "CASE-IN", Director of the Reliable Shift Foundation.

A. Korolev:

-hello!

M. Antonov:

- And Gorubin Luka, Project Manager of ANO "Russia is a land of opportunities".

L. Gorubin:

- Good afternoon!

M. Antonov:

- Does ANO stand for an abbreviation?

L. Gorubin:

- An autonomous non-profit organization.

M. Antonov:

- And now I wanted to hear from Artyom about this engineering championship. When the championship is just a sport. How can engineers compete with each other? Is it all on paper or are they demonstrating something?

A. Korolev:

- The idea of the project was born in 2012. We wanted to launch some kind of youth event for future mining workers, so that it would not be specifically about science, like an Olympiad or a conference. And so that it has a competitive aspect and that the guys in it get acquainted with the actual production task. And the wording case championship appeared. We didn't come up with the cases. This method of teaching has been at Harvard for a long time. We just took it as a basis and called our cases engineering, because they are not about economics, not about management, but about how to develop large and large manufacturing enterprises.

M. Antonov:

- For our listeners. Cases are ideas. These are actually ready-made solutions that are quite possible to implement and implement.

A. Korolev:

- Cases are practically such tasks. These are presentations in the format of photographs, graphs, and economic models describing a specific production situation. And with the tasks that are for the participants. And participants receive similar cases. And in teams of four people, they prepare their solutions. After that, they are presented to the expert commission, which selects the best. That's why it's a championship and a competition.

M. Antonov:

- And then Luca joins in. What is your role in this? Do you provide a platform? Further progress.

L. Gorubin:

- The Russia is a Country of Opportunities platform is a system of social elevators that are being built on behalf of the president. And we are already combining 22 projects. And at the beginning of 2019, when we started recruiting new initiatives for this year, the CASE-IN project came to our attention. These are the coolest practice-oriented competitions in this field today. We take on different professional fields. And we have this project for engineers. He has changed a bit since joining the platform. We added the autumn cup because it is entirely online, which allows anyone to participate in it: a student, student or a working specialist from anywhere in our country.

M. Antonov:

- Do you also have a developed cup system?

L. Gorubin:

- This is the name of the second stage. Previously, the championship was held only in the spring half of the year. And there were events at universities and the final was shared across the country. And for the second half of the year there was silence in this project. My colleagues and I have come up with the autumn cup, which will expand the number of participants, and since it goes through all the qualifying stages online, and only the final is face-to-face, it allows more people to participate practically from the comfort of their homes.

M. Antonov:

- "Russia is a country of opportunities" for foreigners as well. Which countries are represented in the international palette?

A. Korolev:

- We are talking about the countries closest to us. The EurAsEC countries. This was due to the fact that in these countries, such as Kazakhstan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan The students study in Russian and in those specialties that are interesting to us. We invited them to the championship at the time, and now every year about ten international teams take part and come to the finals. In terms of the development of the project and the relationship between universities, we invite about ten universities every year.

M. Antonov:

- If you study it, everything seems clear. League of Working Specialties. It's clear what we're talking about. Lua, Artyom, our career guidance has actually been killed in the education system! Are you trying to revive it all with this championship? I don't quite understand how the students participate in this.

L. Gorubin:

- We have a lot of projects for schoolchildren on the platform. They have different directions. There are projects aimed at schoolchildren who want to become entrepreneurs. And there should be a project aimed at schoolchildren who want to connect their lives with engineering.

M. Antonov:

- Now we are listened to in more than 60 cities of Russia. And there sits a parent or a student. And now he knows that there is something where he... and he has a dream. He's handy, he comes up with something. How do I get in? What should I do? Does he need to organize himself, apply to school?

L. Gorubin:

- The main advantage of the school league is that it takes place entirely online. You don't have to go anywhere to do this. It is enough to visit the project's website, register and take part.

M. Antonov:

- And this is for next year?

L. Gorubin:

- Now it is. All the competitions were held this year. All registrations have been completed. Will the next stage start in the spring?

A. Korolev:

- We have now extended the autumn cup to the school league, too. The autumn cup is coming to an end now. And the final will be held on the day of the power engineer on December 21 at the Financial University under the Government. A student from any city in our country, he must have a team – this is one condition. We believe that a team starts from three people. Maximum of four. They should organize themselves and receive this case by mail. And solve it. Now the key advantage that the project has is thanks to colleagues from Russia, the Land of Opportunities, we have 22 universities that give preferences. This is for our students. If you participated in the school league, reached the finals, won, or made it to the top ten, you receive a certificate and additional points to USE in 22 universities. You can choose already. The conditions are different. Someone gives 5 points, someone 6, someone 3. But the point is that this is specifically a social elevator from the point of view that the child not only learned something about energy, but he also went to study.

M. Antonov:

- Luka, are you following the movement of this elevator?

L. Gorubin:

- I want to explain how we see the social elevator. We have four hypostases. The first is employment, the second is an internship or internship, the third is the opportunity to get a new level of education, and for a student it is admission to a bachelor's degree, and so on. Or completing specialized educational programs. And the fourth is the launch of your own project. Social or business.

As for our control. Of course, we have two main performance indicators for each project. This is the number of people who have registered for it. And the second is the number of people who have been on this social elevator for a year after the project. where- then let's go up. Of course, we are monitoring this. We have a separate program for post-project support of participants. Moreover, a social lift is not all they get. We also have a very active Mentoring program, which means that mentors are assigned to the winners of the project, for example, from among the winners of the Leaders of Russia contests. These are people who have proven that they are already great managers. And some of them work in the field that corresponds to the "CASE-IN" project. And such a leader can become a mentor for a team of young students or schoolchildren who have become winners.

M. Antonov:

- 8 federal districts. Will there be an expansion by city? Will other cities and regions be connected? You can get your bearings, of course, and say, let's work with the millionaires! But the development of single-industry towns, by the way, has not been canceled.

L. Gorubin:

- The main principle of all projects on our platform is that anyone can participate in them. From anywhere in our country. This is what we strive for. Of course, solving engineering cases in terms of the student league is a little more difficult, because it takes place full-time and on the basis of educational organizations. But the number of these educational institutions is growing from year to year. And we hope that it will continue to grow. Of course, it depends on the profile of these organizations. And we are trying to connect all universities where engineering specialties exist, to increase the number of universities, which in the future will give additional points for admission. The reach will grow.

M. Antonov:

- And the assessments of international experts? Why don't we take a swing at it… Challenge non-CIS countries? Well, what about the Europeans? Arrive. We'll show you our cases, and you'll show us yours.

L. Gorubin:

- I cannot say that we will do this in the near future, however, I think that our guys are not inferior to their foreign colleagues.

M. Antonov:

- Is there any international assessment?

L. Gorubin:

- We have not done such an analysis. First of all, we focus on creating opportunities for self-realization for our students. But the companies that evaluate the contestants here are companies with an international field of interest. Their high assessment already indicates that the guys are competitive in the global market.

A source: Komsomolskaya Pravda. Ural