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The Hajim School’s Grand Challenges Scholars Program (GCSP) empowers students to tackle one of 14 major global engineering challenges across sustainability, health, security, and quality of life through interdisciplinary study and reflection, culminating in a capstone reflection or presentation and recognition at graduation. GCSP is an interdisciplinary capstone project open to all majors. Throughout the semester, we’ll highlight GCSP students in Hajim Highlights and on Instagram. This week we feature Nyasha Gwaza ’26 (electrical and computer engineering).

“My Grand Challenge is centered on sustainability,” says Nyasha. “I pursued this through education by running a Project for Peace that taught sewing skills as an alternative to illegal mining, volunteering with the Congo Path to the Future program, and tutoring for the TRIO Upward Bound program. I also engaged in sustainability through entrepreneurship by running a chicken farming project in Zimbabwe to provide affordable protein. Additionally, I approached sustainability through research on advancing electronic devices. Framing my work through the Grand Challenge Scholars Program helped me bring together my extracurricular activities into one cohesive story.”