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Posted on Fri, Nov 13, 2009 : 1:42 p.m.

Pattengill Elementary students visit University of Michigan's K-Day

By David Jesse

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Pattengill Elementary School third graders Andrew Huston, center, and Emilio Carrillo, right, tie balloons to a food carton that they soon would be placing a raw egg inside before having it dropped off the second floor of the Univeristy of Michigan's Chemistry building in an egg drop competition against their classmates during Friday, November 13th's Annual K-Day at UM for the third graders. Lon Horwedel | AnnArbor.com

Students from Mary Catherine Rudberg's third-grade classroom at Ann Arbor's Pattengill Elementary School visited the University of Michigan today for K-Day, part of a student group called K-grams work with elementary school students.

The students conducted science experiments, had lunch on campus, toured a dorm room and met some U-M athletes.

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Pattengill Elementary School third grader Rodolfo Plata blows up a balloon to be used for proctection for a raw egg that Plata and his classmates had to drop off the second floor of the Univeristy of Michigan's Chemistry building in an egg drop competition. Lon Horwedel | AnnArbor.com