BUNKER HILL — A new home, courtesy of ABC-TV reality show “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” and hundreds of volunteers, wasn’t the last gift the Cowan-Brown family received this week.

Ball State University has offered Heather and Andy Cowan’s four children — Kori Brown, 12, Ryan Brown, 16, Trevor Brown, 13, and Mason Cowan, 8 — special scholarships for four years of full tuition, university spokesman Tony Proudfoot announced during a press conference Wednesday.

“Ball State could not be more delighted to be a part of this effort,” Proudfoot said.

The children must apply and be admitted to be eligible for the scholarship.

“So can you say ‘Go Cardinals?’” he said to the children.

The scholarships were one of two gifts the family received during Wednesday’s press conference in the front yard of the family’s new, approximately 3,500-square-foot, rural Miami County home.

Additionally, administrators from the Maconaquah School Corporation presented Kori Brown with a check for $2,478 for the

American Cancer Society.

Craig Jernagan, Maconaquah Middle School’s principal, said the corporation had a one-day drive to raise the money. It has donated all the money in Kori’s honor, he said.

“I feel like we’re going to be saying ‘Thank you’ the rest of our lives,” Heather Cowan said during the press conference.

ABC selected the family mainly because of Kori, who has a congenital blood disorder. During her trips to Riley Hospital for

Children, she befriended a girl with cancer. Since then, Kori has raised more than $35,000 for the American Cancer Society in her friend’s honor.

The family finished filming interviews for “Extreme Makeover” off-site

Wednesday while the show’s remaining crews spent the day clearing the area on 100 West in Miami County. Security personnel closed the area to the general public.

The show filmed its grand finale scene Tuesday when star Ty Pennington and the rest of the cast taped its “Move that bus” segment. Hundreds of fans and volunteers gathered for the moment when the members of the Cowan-Brown family returned from a vacation in Disneyland, got out of the limo and caught a first glimpse of the home volunteers built for them in less than a week.