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  • Alright. I'm going to be the bad guy and give the AZ Science Center a 2 star rating. In my mind, the key to a successful hands-on exhibit is: 1. Demonstrate a cool science topic with a "wow" factor that grabs my attention 2. Now that you've got my attention, explain *what* just happened, and *why* it happened. TEACH ME SOMETHING. The exhibits in this museum are SEVERELY lacking in the second half. You have to understand I'm a 5-year old science geek at heart. Which means I love to play with toys, but I also love to find out what makes the toys tick. Push down on this platform and a smoke ring ejects from a big box. Wow that was cool. What made that happen? Oh, no explanation, I guess I'll move onto the next exhibit... Pull on the rope positioned higher on the lever and it's easier to move than pulling on the rope positioned lower. Wow, that was cool. What made that happen? Oh, no explanation, I guess I'll move onto the next exhibit... Turn on a light that projects an upside-down image through a lens and appears right-side-up on the wall. Wow, that was cool. What made that happen? Oh, no explanation, I guess I'll move onto the next exhibit... You can see the pattern here. Another big beef I had was that there were way too many stations for kids to just play with legos or draw with crayons or make origami. "This is how a house is built. Draw a house on paper with crayons..." The most egregious in this category was the Ford sponsored Robots gallery. Lots of playing with dominos, drawing with crayons, and reading quotes from your favorite movie robots. That's it. No joke. Nothing informative at all. And I stupidly paid extra for it. I'm sure that with a good rotating exhibit, the museum would have garnered a third star from me. By far the saving grace of this museum is the live demonstrations, where they do actually teach you something while wowing you with such things as exploding fireballs. But honestly, the museum itself felt like a big playground for kids with ADD to run amok. I know some people are going to think "It's a museum for kids, it's supposed to be that way." Well, that's true to an extent, but the museum should be both fun AND INFORMATIVE, not fun and pointless. You might as well take your kid to a Chuck E Cheese for fun and pointless. At least they might walk away with a back scratcher or a kazoo, as opposed to walking away with nothing...
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