This kit was well-designed. It included a lot of really neat experiments and did a great job showing the way things work! I liked the fact that there was a book and a CD-ROM that came with the kit. The topic of this kit was quite interesting. Everyone has a lot of “how does that happen?” questions and it answered tonnes of them. This kit’s activities were both easy and hard. It was neat because many different age groups can perform the experiments.
     My favourite part of the kit was the Pinball Science CD-ROM. I never really thought about pinball having anything to do with science but it turns out that it has a lot to do with it! My least favourite part of the kit was the really easy experiments because they were too easy for me (but they were great for my younger sister!) I learned some super stuff from this kit. I didn’t know that pinball was scientific and it is. I also learned that if you have the right kind of pulley, a person can lift a really heavy elephant!
     If I could change anything about the kit, I would label all the parts because whenever I did the experiments, I could never find the ones I needed. It would take me a while to find the part and I got frustrated. I would also make the dowels thinner because I had to put wheels and gears on them and it was a real struggle to get them on.
     My overall impression of the kit is great. If I had to describe the kit in just one word, it would be cool. I give this kit a rating of eight out of ten. I liked this kit and I’d recommend it to you!

(Originally published in the Mar/Apr 2001 issue of YES Mag.)