The National Research Nuclear University MEPhI has become the winner of the II National Interuniversity Championship "Young professionals" by WorldSkills standards, winning the largest number of medals. Representatives of MEPhI performed in 16 of the 44 categories, including "Electronics", "Mobile robotics”, “Quantum technologies", etc. Both representatives of the Moscow site and six its branches from different cities of Russia fought for gold of the competition.

The final was intense and bright. Eight new competencies appeared in the program, more than 500 students from 93 universities fought for the awards – this was 10 more than in 2017.

For the second year in a row MEPhI became the leader in the number of medals. University students received 5 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze medals. On the second place is Bauman Moscow State Technical – 4 gold and 1 bronze medals. The third line of the unofficial medal standings was shared by the State University of Humanities and Technology, Moscow State Polytechnic University, Far Eastern Federal State University and Kazan Innovative University named after V. G. Timiryasova – they have 4 medals. For the first time medals will go to Samara, Orenburg, Amur, Voronezh, Novgorod regions and the Republic of Mari-El.

The General Director of the Union "Young professionals (WorldSkills Russia)" thanked the participants, experts, sponsors and partners, without whom the championship would not have taken place. Robert Urazov stressed that there were no losers at the National Interuniversity Championship: "Those who did not receive a medal, do not stop at this stage. Each championship is an opportunity not only to prove themselves, not just to try, but also to take a step for further professional growth, to future victories."

The competitions were held with the support of the Moscow Government. It was the capital of Russia that presented the largest team. "Moscow initially supported the National Interuniversity Championship "Young professionals" and hosts the final for the second time. This is quite a pragmatic decision: we are interested in encouraging future young professionals to improve their skills. It is also very important for the Moscow Government to involve universities in the development of professional competencies that are currently in demand in the market. Last year, there were 19% Moscow students among the participants of the championship, today it’s 21%,” said the head of the Department of entrepreneurship and innovative development of Moscow Alexey Fursin.

In 2018, MEPhI has increased its’ mission in the Interuniversity Championship. The University has held one of the biggest qualifying stages in Moscow and its’ 6 branches. 128 students and 110 employees took part in the competition. As a result, a team was formed to participate in the finals of the II National Interuniversity Championship WorldSkills-2018 consisting of 40 people (20 student participants and 20 staff members).

The MEPhI team again achieved outstanding results in the Interuniversity Championship, winning prizes in 13 out of 16 competencies in the competition which was attended by University students.

Gold:

• Reverse engineering (Dmitry Gerasimov, compatriot – I.I. Rodco, MEPhI, Moscow);
• Machine learning and big data (Dmitry Raspopov, compatriot – V.V. Ryabtseva, OINPE MEPhI)
• Software solutions for business (Alexey Laptev, compatriot – V.A. Weber, TTI MEPhI);
• Laser technologies (Mikhail Paskhalov, compatriot – A.S. Shchekin, MEPhI, Moscow);
• Quantum technologies (Violetta Sharoglazova, compatriot – V.A. Pirog, MEPhI, Moscow).

Silver:

• Control of the UAV (Mikhail Shadrin, compatriot – V.S. Voronin, MEPhI, Moscow);
• Mobile robotics (Victoria Salakhutdinova and Angelina Turetskikh, compatriot – A.A. Romanova, TI MEPhI);
• Analysis of security of information systems from external threats (Pavel Parkhomets, compatriot – I.V. Nizhnichenko, MEPhI, Moscow).

Bronze:

• Engineering design CAD (Semen Murzin, compatriot – I.V. Gorbatov, SPTI MEPhI);
• Web development (Victor Firus, compatriot – V.A. Tolstov, VITI MEPhI).

It is important to note that in some competencies only gold medals were awarded due to the small number of participants, but our students won prizes:

• Video production – 2nd place (Arthur Von, compatriot - A.V. Ignatov, MEPhI, Moscow);
• Electronics – 2nd place (Aleksey Zudov, compatriot S.I. Sivkov, TI MEPhI);
• Quantum technologies – 3rd place (Annisiya Klimenko, compatriot – K.S. Lukyanov, MEPhI, Moscow);
• Development of solutions using blockchain technology – 3rd place (Daniil Andreev, Maxim Pak, Ivan Churilov, MEPhI, Moscow, compatriot – R.V. Shershnev, OINPE MEPhI)