Codecademy Fellowship

"While your peers were content using MATLAB, you were off building things with NodeJS and learning Ruby on Rails."

How can people who promote tinkering with NodeJS to build yet another web app instead of, say, studying machine learning algorithms in Matlab, teach computer science?

that's a job not a fellowship

and an abuse of the word fellowship. folks like Gosling, Rossum, Torvalds get fellowships.

I'm guessing that the use of the word "fellowship" is to make it more enticing for not only mom and dad to agree to let you take a year off from school but to make it sound like you are doing something truly special.

Colleges of course do this already and it called by different names such as Drexel's coop program which has been around since 1919:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexel_University

Considering there target audience they should be looking for those who have done n% of there site or some kind of contest.

Seems like they are more looking for a straight out of college graduate with a resume to match a 3 year industry vet. I'm sure they will get one - I know I did CodeAcademy over the last year to learn basic JS while I was bored in my senior year of CS, and most of my peers at least know what it is.