Engineering Sciences · Dartmouth College28

MAZVITA
NHIDZA

Hello, I'm an Engineering Sciences student at Dartmouth College, based in Hanover, New Hampshire.

Open to Internships

I build things that work. FPGA games running on VGA displays, steering systems for a racing car, research pipelines that process 10,000 posts for misinformation signals. Tech is the thread. Curiosity is the engine.

in the worldA-Level Computer Science
6th
students taughtDartmouth COSC 1
200+
posts processedEARS Lab research
10k+
vehicle dynamicsDartmouth Formula Racing
Co-Lead

/ selected work.

Code terminal, Nuggets multiplayer server
01SOFTWARE

Nuggets

Built a multi-client dungeon game server in C, from scratch, over UDP. The server implements the NUGGETS protocol: players join a shared grid, collect gold, and compete in real time across concurrent connections. The server handles message parsing, player state, and game logic simultaneously without any frameworks. All networking, memory management, and protocol implementation written by hand in C.

C / UDP2025
Circuit board, Whack-A-Mole FPGA
02HARDWARE

Whack-A-Mole FPGA

Built a fully playable arcade game in VHDL, running on an FPGA with live VGA display output. Designed finite state machines for game logic, sprite rendering modules for moles and hammers, joystick input handling, and a score system output to seven-segment displays. Every module written in hardware description language. Completed as a team with Alisha Qureshi and Vishal Powell for ENGS 31.

VHDL / FPGA2026Code ↗
Formula racing, Dartmouth Formula Racing Team
03ENGINEERING

Dartmouth Formula Racing

Vehicle Dynamics Co-Lead and Aerodynamics member on Dartmouth's Formula SAE team. Responsible for suspension geometry analysis, load transfer modeling, and component design in SolidWorks. The team competes against 500+ university teams internationally. Also involved in fabrication including TiG welding. Started in first year, currently co-leading the dynamics subteam.

SOLIDWORKS2024
Data research, misinformation detection pipeline
04RESEARCH

Misinformation Detection Pipeline

Research intern at Dartmouth's EARS Lab under Prof. Herbert Chang. Built an NLP pipeline to classify misinformation signals across 10,000+ social media posts. Used Python, Pandas, and Matplotlib for data processing, feature extraction, and visualization. Applied text classification methods to distinguish reliable content from unreliable content at scale.

PYTHON / NLP2025
SOFTWARENuggets2025HARDWAREWhack-A-Mole FPGA2026ENGINEERINGFormula Racing2024RESEARCHMisinformation Pipeline2025

/ about.

I'm a Teaching Assistant for Dartmouth's intro CS course (~200 students), Vehicle Dynamics Co-Lead on the Formula Racing team, and a member of SWE and WiCS. Before Dartmouth: Top in Zimbabwe and 6th in the world for A-Level Computer Science. I'm still going.

Software

Built multiplayer game servers in C over UDP, NLP classification pipelines in Python, and object-oriented systems in Java. Comfortable with low-level networking, memory management, and working without abstractions.

Hardware

Designed and implemented a fully playable FPGA game in VHDL with VGA output. Built suspension geometry in SolidWorks for a Formula SAE car. Experienced with TiG welding, Raspberry Pi, and soldering.

Research

Research intern at Dartmouth EARS Lab. Built data pipelines processing 10,000+ posts for misinformation classification. Teaching Assistant for 200+ students. Work sits at the intersection of systems and people.

/ experience.

  1. Sept 2025 — Present

    Teaching Assistant, COSC 1

    Dartmouth College

    Supporting ~200 students in Dartmouth's intro CS course. Running weekly recitations, holding office hours, and grading in Python.

  2. Jan — June 2025

    Research Intern

    Dartmouth EARS Lab

    Built an NLP pipeline for misinformation classification under Prof. Herbert Chang. Processed 10,000+ posts using Python, Pandas, and Matplotlib.

  3. May 2025 — Present

    International Student Mentor

    Dartmouth College

    Supporting incoming international students through the transition to Dartmouth.

  4. Sept 2023 — Sept 2024

    Ambassador and Intern

    Educait EdTech

    Represented the platform at ML and AI hackathons. Contributed to data science initiatives.

  5. Apr — May 2022

    IT Intern

    Rubiem Innovations

    Summer internship supporting internal IT systems and infrastructure.

/ education.

Sept 2024 — June 2028

Dartmouth College

BA Engineering Sciences

Coursework: Software Design, Data Structures, Object-Oriented Programming, Multivariable Calculus, Linear Algebra, Mechanics, Electromagnetism.

2018 — 2023

Arundel School, Zimbabwe

CIE A-Levels

A*A*A in Computer Science, Physics, and Mathematics.

  • Top in Zimbabwe, AS Computer Science
  • 6th in the world, A-Level Computer Science

LinkedIn ↗GitHub ↗

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