Name: Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Genre: Reality

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Episode 5.05 The Yazzie Family

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Episode 5.05 The Yazzie Family

Episode Premiere

October 28, 2007

Genre

Reality

Production Company

Endemol Ent., Lock and Key Prod., ABC, Greengrass

Official Site

http://abc.go.com/shows/extreme-makeover-home-edition

Information

Episode Premiere

October 28, 2007

Genre

Reality

Period

2004 - Now

Production Co

Endemol Ent., Lock and Key Prod., ABC, Greengrass

Distributor

ABC

Official Site

http://abc.go.com/shows/extreme-makeover-home-edition

Cast and Crew

Main Cast

Ty Pennington
Paul DiMeo
Paige Hemmis
Michael Moloney
Ed Sanders
Tracy Hutson
Tanya McQueen
Eduardo Xol
John Littlefield
Rib Hillis

Synopsis

For the past five years the Yazzie family have been living in a mobile home that has no running water or heat, and only half the trailer with functioning electricity. Seeing that his family's mobile home had no heat, at 13 years of age, son Garrett tapped his scientific intuition to create a solar heater and a water heater. To create these, he used recycled materials, including an old car transmission and 69 aluminum cans, combining them with power generated from the sun. Garrett's makeshift heating system followed the Navajo principles of living off the land, not wasting anything and recycling everything that the earth has to offer. For his invention, he became the first Navajo to win 9 out of the 10 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Awards