My 7 year old son and I love it , he said he really likes how he can make different shapes of toys. He is really proud of himself for building objects just like an engineer and all by himself with or without instructions. It can definitely help kid to get more creative and focused too.

Bought this set for my 11 year old son. He loved it! I was surprised that he, who is not big on studying, dove into the learning portion of the instruction book before he even started building the projects. He LOVES to build things, but really enjoys building for a purpose, not just to make something cool to look at. This set allowed him to build some cool looking projects that DID something. He learned from the book, applied that new found knowledge to each project and had so much fun I don't think he thought about it as science/physics. His older sister watch him run some of the experiments and said that she was just now learning the things he was working on in her science class and that she learned more from watching his experiments than she did in class! Quality of the plastic parts is high. Only niggle was that one of the experiments (catapult) did not really display the physics involved as well as the others, but my son enjoyed that experiment nonetheless. If you have a kid who liked to build things and likes to "see what happens when I do this..." then they will love this kit!

I am using this kit to introduce basic Newtonian physics to 12 thru 16 yr olds. The projects are very useful in demonstrating how the various laws work. They are also useful in showing how to employ the applicable equations to predict outcomes of experiments. Note that the introductory material included in the booklet is very basic. It needs to be developed in more detail in order for STEM students, especially in this age range, to get a practical feel for Newton's laws and the associated math. The parts go together and come apart fairly easily. The project "blue prints" are easy to follow.

I brought it for my grandson. I think he likes it. It looks like fun to me.

My wife bought this a while ago for our 7 year old grandson. She asked me today to see if I could find the manual on line. I spent an hour digging around on the web sites (there are more than one) and finally came to a section that had a box labeled "3D" I clicked on it, and it came up with a complete start to finish assembly diagram that showed how to build the project (we did the pendulum first) and I was extremely impressed with this link. I would have given this a 5 rating except it took some time to find this link; actually I found it on an Amazon review.