By Cindy Ellen Russell, Star-Bulletin
Sean Sugimoto, age 4, listens for sounds in the Whisper
Catcher, which detects words spoken into a matching
device across the mall.

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comes to the mall

To get your hands on the hands-on exhibits at a children's science museum, you could go to the mainland. Or, through Sept. 7, you could go to Pearlridge Center.

The mall, Bishop Museum and a host of other sponsors have brought in a traveling collection of exhibits from the Pacific Science Center in Seattle. The exhibits allow kids (of all ages) to turn themselves into gyroscopes, check their reflections in a parabolic mirror, watch a ball make its way into a gravity well.

The 18 exhibits are spread throughout the Uptown and Downtown areas. But centerpiece of it all is an 1,800-square-foot maze made of colorful fabric barriers that fills the Uptown center court, at the bottom of the escalators. Find your way through it, or watch others do it from the second floor. The maze is reconfigured weekly.

The traveling science carnival has been visited by 700,000 people across the country.

By Cindy Ellen Russell, Star-Bulletin
4th-graders from Maili Elementary crowd around
the parabolic mirror and proclaim it "cool."

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The World of Wonder:
The Science of Having Fun

Place: Pearlridge Center, Uptown and Downtown

Hours: 10 a.m.-9 p.m. daily, except Sunday when the mall closes at 6 p.m. Runs through Sept. 7

Admission: Free

Call: 488-0981

Demonstrations (All at Pearlridge Downtown):

The Supercold Show: An exploration into liquid nitrogen and the energy of molecules. At noon, 2, 4 and 6 p.m.

Kitchen Science: Simple objects from the kitchen are used to demonstrate scientific principals. At 10 a.m. and 8 p.m.

By Cindy Ellen Russell, Star-Bulletin
The students move on to the maze, where some
of them find you can take a shortcut by aiming low.

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