Senior to receive possible 15 minutes of fame

Senior Jennifer Robertson may get her 15 minutes of fame Sunday May 17 with the airing of ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition finale at 8 p.m. The show finishes the season building a home in Indianapolis, where Robertson volunteered on the worksite. She cited three places where viewers might catch a glimpse of her on their television sets:

1) One of the designers, Michael, explains to the camera that they were putting bricking on the house and Robertson was in the background handing bricks to other volunteers for background movement.

“They shoot everything three times, so we had to hand these bricks three times,” Robertson said. “We ran out of bricks, so we just started stacking the same bricks on the ground and kept handing that pile to each other.”

2. In the back of the house, the team built a basketball court for the kids. They painted the words “Packhouse 2000,” the name of the program Bernard McFarland created to help neighborhood kids keep learning outside of school, on the court. During that shoot, Robertson, her sister, and senior Stephanie Simpson pretended to plant flowers in the back.
“We didn’t have any flowers, so we were actually just patting wet ground with our hands for 15 minutes,” Robertson said.

3. During the final reveal of the house to the McFarlands, the community and volunteers come out to help welcome the family back from their Paris vacation. Robertson created the only French sign, one that read “Welcome Home” in French.

“Mine was the only one that was panned,” Robertson said. “The camera was like two inches from it.”