I was at Discovery World on Saturday to see, among other things, the Les Paul exhibit.  While that particular exhibit was pretty cool, I have to say that overall, Discover World is really not that great.  It's very poorly organized overall, and many of the exhibits really didn't work right.  While the aquarium is pretty cool, the "Great Lakes" mock up they have is hardly impressive at all.  I can't even imagine how much money was blown on that.

The Technology area is terrible for kids.  Really, its just an advertising venue for major area technology companies like Johnson Controls and Rockwell Automation.  However, the displays are hardly suitable for teaching anything.  In fact, on many occasions I saw kids walking by half the displays because they just didn't even know where to start "discovering" anything.  The problem?  All the displays try to use incredibly advanced and difficult systems to teach simple concepts in technology.  Because of that, kids often times don't know where to start (and often times neither did their parents), and also those systems were hardly kid proof and were in broken states.

Clearly the companies that donated the systems were more concerned with showcasing the latest in their product offerings, instead of creating something that was actually usable for teaching kids.