M.NHIDZA
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Mazvita Nhidza

Engineering Sciences, Dartmouth College28Hanover, New Hampshire

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

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.

Work

  1. 01

    Nuggets

    SOFTWARE · C / UDP · 2025

    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.

  2. 02

    Whack-A-Mole FPGA

    HARDWARE · VHDL / FPGA · 2026

    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.

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  3. 03

    Dartmouth Formula Racing

    ENGINEERING · SOLIDWORKS · 2024

    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.

  4. 04

    Misinformation Detection Pipeline

    RESEARCH · PYTHON / NLP · 2025

    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.

About

From multiplayer C servers to VHDL game logic to NLP pipelines, I'm building across the full stack of engineering. My projects span software, hardware, and data, with a bias toward things that can be held, raced, or shipped.

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.

Experience

  1. Teaching Assistant, COSC 1

    Sept 2025 — Present

    Dartmouth College

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

  2. Research Intern

    Jan — June 2025

    Dartmouth EARS Lab

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

  3. International Student Mentor

    May 2025 — Present

    Dartmouth College

    Supporting incoming international students through the transition to Dartmouth.

  4. Ambassador and Intern

    Sept 2023 — Sept 2024

    Educait EdTech

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

  5. IT Intern

    Apr — May 2022

    Rubiem Innovations

    Summer internship supporting internal IT systems and infrastructure.

Education

  1. Dartmouth College

    Sept 2024 — June 2028

    BA Engineering Sciences

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

  2. Arundel School, Zimbabwe

    2018 — 2023

    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

Skills

Programming
Java, C, Python
Hardware
VHDL / FPGA, SolidWorks, Raspberry Pi, TiG Welding, Soldering
Tools
Pandas, Matplotlib, Git
Languages
English (fluent), Shona (native), French (intermediate)

Beyond

Contact

Building something interesting? I'd love to hear about it, let's figure out what we can make together.

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