User:Chipa Thomas Maimela/sandbox

Chipa Thomas Maimela is an educational activist born in Roodepoort Johannesburg in the early 70's ,He was raised in Hammanskraal where he started his education at Khomba Primary School ,and later moved to Limpopo where he attended at Masehlone Primary School and Maruatona High School and subsequently received his Education diploma at Sekgosese College in the early 90's,He obtained his Honours degree in Educational Management  with the University of South Africa.He worked at the Limpopo Department of Education as  Science Teacher ,he became the Branch Secretary of SADTU Sekgosese East Branch where at the time he was the secretary of Sekgosese SACP district between 2000 and 2006 and left for the position of an Education Specialist in Science at Dimamo Circuit where he was later elected the deputy Chairperson of Sadtu Moses Makwela Branch while he was the deputy chairperson of Ivy Park Branch of the ANC (Mary Mavanyisi Branch) 2010 to 2014 and later went to the University of Witwatersrand where he worked as an educational developer.

Chipa Thomas Maimela is a known Limpopo Teacher who took ICT very seriously and earned several awards and recognition from ICT organisations such Coza Cares ,Schoolnet SA ,Vodacom Digital Classroom, Microsoft Education and the National Teaching Award in Limpopo.In 2003 He was awarded a Special Super Teacher Award by Coza Cares followed by the Limpopo Provincial National Teacher Award in 2013 and 2014 .In 2016 he was awarded the Global Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert award for most of his outstanding work in ICT.He is the owner of the Blog Physical Sciences Break 1.0 which focuses much on the subject he taught for two decades which is Physical Sciences for Grade 10,11 and 12 FET band.The blog attracts a lot of learners and teachers and has an approximate user of about 1 million.He became a science and technology educator who believes that technology plays a role in the education system.This was further proved by the successful Physical Science Break 1.0 mobile App he developed to supplement the blog and the facebook page which assist in engaging learners in the Science subject.