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  • At Discovery Cube Orange County, kids use a touch-screen tablet...

    At Discovery Cube Orange County, kids use a touch-screen tablet to go through the Inspector Training Course, earning badges as they find and get rid of vectors – mosquitoes, rodents and flies – in their backyards.

  • “Rain Room” is now at LACMA for a limited engagement.

    “Rain Room” is now at LACMA for a limited engagement.

  • Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirrored Room, a mirror-lined chamber housing a...

    Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirrored Room, a mirror-lined chamber housing a dazzling and seemingly endless LED light display, is on view at The Broad.

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“Kids who actively engage in a hands-on exhibit are more likely to learn what that exhibit intends to teach,” said Janet Yamaguchi, vice president of education for the Discovery Science Foundation. “Once a child is actively engaged, the intended message that we want them to learn is absorbed, cemented and applied to real-life situations.”

Here are three can’t-miss interactive events happening this summer.”

Inspector Training Course Discovery Cube Orange County

This interactive scavenger hunt teaches children how to find and get rid of vectors – mosquitoes, rodents and flies – in their backyards. Kids use a touch-screen tablet, earning badges as they solve problems along the way. The better you protect your home, the more badges you earn. Dealing with vectors and the diseases they bring can be important to know, and the tablets enhance interaction by directing kids “to use science-thinking skills such as making an observation, comparing and contrasting items, analyzing information or solving a problem,” Yamaguchi said. discoverycube.org

‘Infinity Mirrored Room’ The Broad museum

Yayoi Kusama’s “Infinity Mirrored Room – The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away” is a multicolored LED light display made of glass mirrors, plastic, LED lighting systems, acrylic balls and water assembled inside a dark, mirror-lined chamber. Installations – especially experiential ones – are great ways to view and discuss art. Requires a timed ticket (but is free) and will be on view through the fall. thebroad.org

‘Rain Room’ LACMA

The “Rain Room” is an elaborate art installation that lets visitors walk through a simulated downpour. Water falls continuously in the room, but never on people – automated sensors detect human bodies. For children, seeing a natural occurrence within a confined space awakens their curiosity.

“Rain Room” reopened May 19 for a limited engagement and requires a special timed ticket to enter. $10 for ages 3-17; $30 for adults ($15 for general admission plus $15 for the exhibit). Children younger than 3 can be held in a parent’s arms and carried inside. lacma.org