'The Tech' in San Jose downtown is a sophisticated building that houses hours of scientific exploration for kids and adults alike. Shweta and her husband Nikhil persuaded us into going there. The ticket costed us $10 a person which included a documentary movie in the IMAX theater (IMAX tickets cost $5, if bought separately). Our kids, who were less than 5 years got in free. The museum is pretty small, spread across 2 floors and can be browsed through in about 3 hours. We went there around 2.00 PM and were done by 5.00 PM. If you spend time in building any of the projects, you would end up staying longer. They have some cool projects and games like 'Build your own turbine', 'Build your own tracks and coasters', 'Craft session', 'Shoot the target in moon', 'Virtual hand wrestling', 'Virtual race on a wheel chair', 'Grow your own glowing bacteria by inserting jellyfish DNA' etc. Shweta and I did grow our own 'glowing' bacteria :) and it was fun...
Our kids were too young to actually have fun here. Kids above 5th or 6th grade would have loads of fun and you could easily spend a whole day. For us, the highlight was the IMAX movie. The theater has a huge dome shaped screen which gives a 3D kind of experience. This has been the best IMAX experience till now. We watched the 45 - minute movie 'Under the sea' and I found it very interesting. The best part was my 17 month old son enjoyed it so much. He pointed at the screen and called out aloud 'Fishy', exclaimed 'WOW!!!' and clapped his hands in glee many times... At the end, when the title was displayed with a background song, he started stomping and dancing until the song was over. Seeing our son having so much fun, made our day!!
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