The cascade of Kuban hydroelectric power plants received the finalists of the "CASE-IN" from Nevinnomyssk

Pupils of the Energy Class of PJSC RusHydro, having won the correspondence qualifying round, advanced to the finals of the international engineering championship "CASE-IN" School League. The young engineers were invited to a study tour of the hydroelectric power plant of the Kuban HPP Cascade, a branch of PJSC RusHydro.

The hydropower engineers of HPP-4 introduced the students to the work of the station, inspected the hydraulic equipment. Evgeny Kovalev, the head of the Barsuchkovskaya HPP group, told the guests about the principles of operation, answering questions from the guys who are preparing for the final of the CASE-IN championship, which will be held in Moscow at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation.

The championship has been held since 2013, offering schoolchildren, students and young professionals of the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes to try their hand at solving engineering cases. The international competition system includes 57 specialized universities in 34 regions of the Russian Federation and three CIS countries. The school league provides for team competitions for students in grades 9-11, whose task is to popularize knowledge about energy among schoolchildren, to form a positive and responsible attitude towards this field of knowledge, as well as to identify capable children who are interested in working in the fuel and energy complex and MSC industries. The League is included in the List of Olympiads for schoolchildren for the 2019/20 academic year approved by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.

166 teams from the regions of Russia reached the qualifying distance of the championship, only 15 made it to the final, and 7 of them were the teams of the Energy Classes of PJSC RusHydro from Nevinnomyssk, Novocheboksarsk, Novosibirsk, Rybinsk and Volzhsky. The teams that took the first three places in the final ranking will be able to participate free of charge in specialized summer educational shifts and other projects decided by the organizers.

RusHydro's energy classes operate within the framework of the Advanced Human Resources Development Program "From New School to Workplace". The project has been operating since 2010 in 10 regions of the Company's presence on the basis of partner educational organizations: in the cities of Volzhsky, Novocheboksarsk, Novosibirsk, Nevinnomyssk, Balakovo, Rybinsk, Kodinsk and the villages of Cheryomushki, Novobureysky. In 2019, the Energy Class in Cherkessk began operation. The project aims to provide career guidance to future school graduates, popularize the profession of an energy engineer, familiarize them with the hydropower industry and the activities of the RusHydro Group, as well as support and develop the engineering and technical potential of students. About 85% of graduates of Energy Classes choose specialized areas of study at technical universities. The partner universities of the Company are the Moscow Institute of Economics, the Volga Branch of the Moscow Institute of Economics, and the Sayano-Shushensk Branch of the Siberian Federal University. Students have the opportunity to practice at the Company's power facilities.

A source: Moskovsky Komsomolets Kavkaz