2024 Mathematics and Science Winter Camp reaching end of the first week.

The Mathematics and Science Technology and Innovation (MSTi) Academy, a corporate division of Mphotho Community Development Centre NPO is hosting its first learners camp that run from 17 June until 30 June 2024.

The camp is intended to help learners doing Mathematics, Physical Science, Life science and Geography to improve their academic achievements in these subjects thereby improve the future frontiers and contribute to the National Development Goals of producing 450 000 learners who qualify to enroll for a mathematics and science degree at university by 2030.

Mobile Planetarium in a virtual reality show display

Mphotho Community Development Centre NPO did it again. We hosted a virtual reality show that attracted about 114 learners on the first day

Bosa Bo Sele Primary School has joined us

In our quest to realize the establishment of 240 After School Learning clubs in the Bojanala District, the centre has moved also into the Rustenburg sub-district to establish clubs. Our first club in the sub-district is at Bosa Bo Sele Primary School. We started the learning support programs at Bosa Bo Sele Primary on the 01 June 2022. We are seeing about 30 learners everyday to assist with home-works, reading and writing skills. The activities include using an array of games, crossword puzzels and dictations. Learners learn to correct their spelling, counting and reading.

2022 NRF/SAASTA ASTRO QUIZ ROUND ONE COMPLETED

Mphotho Community Development NPO has done it again. by facilitating a successful round 1 of the 2022 NRF/SAASTA Astro Quiz. Through the SAASTA -SANSA - Mphotho Collaboration, the Afterschool Learning Support clubs distributed over 500 "Know Your Universe" booklets to grade 7 learners from six (6) primary schools on the eastern parts of Moses Kotane Local Municipality while preparing them for a written component of the quiz.. The Centre went on to mark the scripts and the results of the quiz are out. Learners who performed above 40% are presented an opportunity to visit the Hartebeeshoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO) during the June/July winter semester break. About 172 learners qualified and the table below shows the breakdown:

Name of School	Number passed (40% and above)
Machama Primary School	22
Madima Primary School	28
Mmamitlwa Primary School	15
Ofentse Primary School	27
Nthebe Primary School	15
Tshwara O Dire Primary School	70
TOTALS	172

Building bridges of Hope by establishing After School Learning Clubs

Mphotho Community Development Centre NPO is a community based organizaton founded for the purpose of facilitating sustainable and tailor-made human development programs that address immediate and future human and labour needs through forging meaningful and positive partnerships with communities, government and business.

In pursuit of our purpose, we at the Centre has initiated partnerships with the following:

Communities: Kgotla ya Motuane through a permission to use a community building at Old Ramono Middle School.

Government: Through a Quality Learning and Teaching Campaign (QLTC) we are working closely with Madima Primary School and hope to extend this relationship to Manamakgotha Commercial Secondary and Machama Primary Schools

Further collaborations are under formation with the South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement (SAASTA), an business unit of the National Research Foundation (NRF) and the South African National Space Agency (SANSA), an agency of the South African Government