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Thanks for the warning. Actually, I already got an inkling b/c online they said the kids could bring in an old computer tower as a take-apart item, and once I registered and paid, I got an email saying they could bring in an old clock or a radio as a take apart item. Of course, I don't have an old clock or radio, but I do have an old computer...

Yup. The take the pieces apart and use them to decorate a card board box and you can 'imagine' what your machine might do. I'm sure that would go well for many fine and gifted children - just not mine!

Oh, that isn't what my kids did at all! They took things apart and made other things with the pieces. They made a roller coaster with loops out of different things and rolled marbles down them, they played different games everyday, made airplanes out of reyclables, made a rocket and they decided how to make it fly (mine used an air pump), etc.

Now they aren't going to make great and wonderful new, fully working machines so don't expect that. It is out of recyclables after all, but they didn't just have to imagine things working.

Grinity I can definitely see why your DS didn't enjoy it!!!!! I'm sorry he had such a bad experience.

EandCmon
I'm glad your local program was a good experience! Sound like fun. I don't know if anything short of DS's overly high expecations would have been ok for him at the time, but he loves putting together stuff that works, flys, moves, explodes - so I think he would have been interested.

Smiles,
Grinity