Not quite...in my attempts at coming up with a rationale for one of the "Padawannabes," I discovered a race called the Shard, sentient crystals who can be installed into droid bodies...and their organization, the Iron Knights. Long story short, some Shards are Force-sensitive (inorganic midi-chlorians?), and a slightly whacko Jedi Master taught them the way of the Jedi, which they apparently took to like ducks to water. The Jedi Council naturally freaked, and excommunicated all the Shard Jedi and their Master; unlike past dimwittery of the kind, however, this time it didn't blow up in their face. The Iron Knights decided, rather than fall to the Dark Side and become Jedi haters, they'd instead bide their time, follow the path of the Light Side, and wait for the chance to prove their worth, which would come decades later when a startled yet pleased Luke Skywalker would find them, ready and willing to join his Jedi Academy and fight against the Yuzhan Vong invasion...which is, of course, another story.
THIS Shard, however, being a mere 5 or 6 thousand years old (practically a baby!), was full of youthful idealism and bold plans. She (Shard are genderless, but tend to lean towards one or the other, due to interactions with the humans who found them) would PROVE the Shard were Jedi material by disguising her droid shell as an organic biped, joining the order as a Padawan, and, once she attained the rank of Master, revealing to the Council she was a Shard all along!
...yeah. Nobody ever said being a near-ageless crystalline alien made you a genius.
Unable to figure out why the Jedi Temple guards kept turning her away at the gates, no matter how many times she'd switch disguises, Upari (all Iron Knights name themselves after lightsaber crystals), after her latest disguise failure, ends up tagging along with the washout girls previously posted as they go to drown their sorrows in pitchers of lum, thereby narrowly avoiding the black-robed figure and his battalion of clone troopers marching up the stairs to the temple behind them...
When the girls accidentally out themselves as "Jedi" trying to save an actual (fallen) Jedi from clone troopers and bounty hunters, they barely manage to escape with their lives; Upari, however, ends up sacrificing her disguise and much of her droid shell in the escape, revealing her true nature to the others. Later, with the help of the Twi'lek greasemonkey from a few posts back, Tahmb Oya, she replaces some of her lost parts with ones salvaged from the Separatist battle droids (this will probably still just be a transitory form for her, as she and Tahmb will probably be constantly tinkering with her body).
...you can probably guess which of the previous girls is Upari just by looking at her. Oh, well.