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Apprentice, journeyman or fellow, and Master

edit: The real question is, how do you get this far without knowing you are running an Apprenticeship? https://www.hackerschool.com/about

I don't think "apprenticeship" is a fitting label. It implies that participants are newbies (some are, some aren't) or that there is some kind of structure or training.

I was about to suggest ‘apprentice’ as a reference to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compagnons_du_Tour_de_France but then again, I realised I had little idea how Hacker school approaches their role. A similar binomial role is found at the same period (i.e. early Middle-ages until now) among some monks, generally travelling ones: the younger ones are ‘novice’.

(For geeky reference: either presumably inspired the Jedi/Padawan structure.)

Calling the whole thing an apprenticeship is humbling, as there are obviously journeymen/fellows and masters involved which would be given titles according to merit as you said.

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