COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- A 10-year-old fourth-grader finally got to show students her science fair project Tuesday.

Whitney Ingraham's project on the mummification of pigs was deemed too graphic for the science fair at her Colorado Springs elementary school, but school officials finally let her show it to high school students.

Ingraham, an avid reader on life in ancient Egypt got the OK for the project from Stetson Elementary School officials, but when they saw the finished result, they thought it was not appropriate for elementary school audiences.

It was the first time school officials could recall a student’s project being left out of the fair.

Ingraham had used dead piglets that a butcher discovered in a sow and used mummification techniques used by Egyptians to preserve the piglets. That included removing the tiny organs herself and pulling the brains out of the animals with a hook through the nose -- the same way humans were mummified thousands of years ago.

Her science fair project was to show how mummification slowed the decomposition process.

Advanced-placement biology students in the 11th and 12th grades finally got to see her the results of her project and were impressed -- a far different reaction when fourth-grade classmates peaked at her mummified pigs.

"I had six kids nauseous out in the hall," she told the Colorado Springs Gazette newspaper. "Here there weren’t any kids in the hall."