 Well with summer just around the corner it's time to start thinking about fun on the lake. This week's Northwood's adventure our very own Clayton Castle took a day trip to Grand Rapids to check out the newest exhibit at the Children's Discovery Museum in preparation for a summer on the lake. It was all fun and games on Saturday afternoon on the banks of the Judy Garland Children's Discovery Museum in Grand Rapids as it opened its newest exhibit titled Lake Life. Lake Life is our new interactive exhibit for kids and it reflects our culture here in Atasca County. We have 1,000 lakes. Lake Life had its grand opening on Saturday which included face painting, prize drawings and lots of fun for the kids. The new exhibit offers a wide variety of activities for children to discover life on a lake. Kids are going to be fishing from the fishing dock. We have all kinds of species of fish. They're going to be testing for water quality with secchi discs. We have a bog, a log cabin, a tree fort, a boat. So there'll be all kinds of activities that people do around a lake in the four seasons. While one of the many reasons for the Lake Life exhibit is to educate, the mission goes beyond learning. It's also about discovery. Well, it's to spark a joy of discovery among kids. You know, they asked 50 Nobel Prize winners what was their greatest childhood influence and most said having meaningful experiences at a museum because it led them to ask questions and try and answer them. Now the exhibit didn't happen overnight. Lake Life is the result of months of planning and a collaborative effort among many different people. We established an advisory committee here in town of teachers, retired teachers, and our own education staff. And we worked about nine months to come up with the theme. The primary funders were the Minnesota Humanities Center through the legacy amendment funding, arts and culture funding from the state of Minnesota, the Iron Range Resource and Rehabilitation Board, and then local businesses here in town. Now the Lake Life exhibit will be a permanent fixture at the museum, lasting for at least the next 10 years. Reporting in Grand Rapids for this week's Northwood's adventure, Clayton Castle, Lakeland News. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.