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(KSL News) -- The students at the University of Utah will be looking a little younger this week. The "U" will open its doors to more than 1,700 fifth and sixth graders as it sponsors "Elementary Engineering Week."
Brenna Fawson, University of Utah Union Center: "We get to do hands-on activities and stuff, and it's fun."
Activities throughout the week include building towers out of straws, molding clay fish and launching marshmallows using homemade catapults.
Parker Bengtzen, Oak Meadows Elementary 6th-grader: "We used an automatic door hinge for the spring to launch it farther."
Casey Powell: "When I get in college, that's what I want to do is engineering."
The niversity hopes this week will help launch the students' interests in both engineering and higher education together.
