I’d heard something about this. Gowanus Lounge has it on his blog today. MTV wants to do a reality show about Brooklyn Tech High School, one of Brooklyn’s highly selective high school, whose alumni include two members of Congress, two Nobel Prize winners, an astronaut, engineers, inventors,
an Olympic medalist and recognized leaders of industry and commerce.

Brooklyn Tech News has all the details about the MTV show. Brooklyn Tech has a very impressive web site.  This story is by Marc Williams.

MTV will be filming a pilot about Brooklyn. The producers are looking
for Brooklyn Tech Sophomores and Juniors. Read the information about
MTV’s pilot call Brooklyn.
Then send an email to Mr. Williams to sign up for the casting call. Or
you can sign up in Room 7E4. There will be several casting call
interviews and interested students will attend only by appointment.

MTV’s newest soon-to-be hit show is Brooklyn.
The premise is to paint an accurate picture for America of what life is
like for the average Brooklyn high school student. Brooklyn, New York
is made up of the Caribbean Americans of Flatbush, the Hasidic Jews of
Crown Heights, the hipsters of Williamsburg and the peacenik families
of Park Slope. The infamous Fort Greene projects, artsy DUMBO, upscale
Brooklyn Heights and the soon-to-be arriving NBA Brooklyn Nets. With
2.6 million people packed in Brownstones, tenements and multi-unit
apartment complexes, Brooklyn is a jumble of cultures, creeds and
economic strata. A cross between Harlem in its heyday and Paris,
Brooklyn is the ultimate city within a city. In fact, if it weren’t
already incorporated into New York City, Brooklyn would be the third
biggest city in the country. It’s said that one out of every six
Americans has had a parent or grandparent who lived in Brooklyn at some
point.

With that said, there is only one school in all of
Brooklyn that represents all of those people, and that is Brooklyn Tech
High School. BTHS does not only represent the people of Brooklyn, it
also offers the inspiration, education, values and glimmer of hope that
all the other public schools are lacking.

With a student body
of 4,000, BTHS represents the many faces of teenagers in Brooklyn.
Rich, poor, Asian, Black, White, Hispanic and everyone in between come
here to learn. Since 1922, BTHS has been the home to everyone from
bodybuilders to entertainers to noble laureates. Considered to be one
of the best magnet schools in the country, BTHS is a cutthroat
competition even before the year starts. BTHS has proven to be a golden
free-of-charge opportunity: the first step onto a life of success.

But,
at the end of the day, despite all its diversity, class divides and
Brooklyn grit, BTHS is just like any other American public high school.

This
is a show about America’s urban teenagers, the street savvy teenagers,
the teenagers who have to grow up that much faster because if they
don’t, the city will eat them alive. They will be real and they will be
tough and ready for anything that comes their way or at least so they
think.

Welcome to Brooklyn.