Bernard is a Science Olympiad alumnus and Scioly.org administrator from Washington state who is also involved with Science Olympiad at the local and national levels.
About
As Competitor
Bernard attended Interlake High School in Bellevue, WA from 2011 to 2015 and joined Science Olympiad during his freshman year, competing at the state tournament each year. During his junior and senior years, he was president of his school's Science Olympiad organization and was involved in many endeavors including founding a Science Olympiad summer camp, organizing the team's first tryouts, and planning the inaugural Interlake Invitational.
After graduating high school, bernard attended the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle, WA, where he earned his B.S. in Bioengineering. While at the UW, he co-founded Science Olympiad at the University of Washington with Metasepia_pfefferi which from 2017–2019 hosted regional tournaments for Washington State's Northwest region.
Bernard is currently a medical student at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT, where he helps supervise events for the Yale Invitational and other invitationals in the Northeast. He is the current Chair of the Washington Science Olympiad Board of Directors, having previously served as Tournament Director for Washington's regional and state tournaments during the 2022 season. Bernard also served on Caltech's National Tournament Committee, where he designed the tournament website, and he also designed the website for the BirdSO Invitational.
Bernard joined Scioly.org's staff in May 2015, becoming lead administrator in November 2015. Since 2016, bernard has also served on the national Technology & Engineering Rules Committee, and since 2022, he has worked with the Life, Personal, & Social Science Committee, helping supervise or assist with various events at the national level.
Creating an application for the Test Exchange that organizes file attributes (e.g. event, tournament, year) and supports uploads, better search, and moderation (June 2018–Present)
Creating an application for scheduling site-wide banners and adding support for banners across the site (September 2020–Present)
Reviewing, redoing, and documenting Discord permissions for consistency across categories, channels, and roles (September 2019–Present)
Server cleanup: updating code around the site to reference the same templates for consistency and easier maintenance; making the site experience more cohesive, e.g. referencing the same styling and navigation bar across all pages, making logins redirect to original application (September 2018–Present)
Improving Scioly.org's social media presence on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram (November 2016–Present)
Running annual season "rollovers" (August 2017–Present)
Editing the Wiki, focusing on page cleanups and creating missing pages such as Digital Structures and SkyCiv (February 2014–Present)
Adding easter eggs around Scioly.org for fun (March 2020–Present)
Improving site SEO and updating page meta tags so that social media thumbnails are page-specific, e.g. when linked in Facebook or Discord
Rewriting SSSS to be a subapplication of the Test Exchange to carry over Test Exchange upgrades and allow easier SSSS file migration to the public Test Exchange (April 2021)
Rewriting Prediction Contest (scioly.org/fantasy) with a more intuitive staff-end UI (e.g. setting events, tournaments, dates) and cached results for faster load times (April 2021)
Completed
Improving site navigation by removing directories to broken applications, adding error pages, creating redundant links (e.g. wiki.scioly.org), and using more memorable names for applications (e.g. scioly.org/forums instead of scioly.org/phpBB3, scioly.org/wiki instead of scioly.org/MediaWiki) while retaining symbolic links for archival integrity (June 2017)
Moving site rules to and writing policies at scioly.org/rules for clarity of expectations, administration transparency, and regulatory compliance (June 2017)
Implementing Scioly.org branding guidelines and documenting fonts, logos, and colors at scioly.org/design
Restyling the Scioly.org Forums for consistency with site-wide design (December 2016, September 2019)
Redoing and documenting Scioly.org Forums permissions for consistency across subforums and user groups (March 2020)
Recreating an application for Scioly Summer Study Session that supports year rollover and adding SSSS administrators/moderators (June 2017)
Recreating the application for conducting Prediction Contests to revive the tradition (May 2018)
Implementing reCAPTCHA, Forums permissions, and other spam-fighting measures (March 2020)
Overseeing the Scioly.org Chat platform transition to Discord (May 2020–August 2020)
Restyling the Scioly.org Wiki (Main Page and Vector theme CSS files) for mobile responsiveness and consistency with site-wide design (May 2020–August 2020)
Writing an application to allow viewing the Open Bulletin Board (OBB) archives at scioly.org/obb (August 2020)
Making Forums topic starter posts pull data directly from the Wiki to allow content to reflect future seasons and to minimize numbers of sources that need updating (September 2021)
Science Olympiad Event Placings
2011–2012
Anatomy/Physiology
Disease Detectives
Gravity Vehicle
Write It Do It
Team
Regional
5th
3rd
10th
7th
2nd
State
DNP
5th
7th
5th
5th
2012–2013
Boomilever
Disease Detectives
Gravity Vehicle
Write It Do It
Team
Invitational
DNP
3rd
DNP
3rd
Regional
7th
3rd
DNP
7th
3rd
State
19th
9th
9th
17th
9th
2013–2014
Anatomy/Physiology
Boomilever
Disease Detectives
Elastic Launched Glider
Mission Possible
Scrambler
Team
Invitational
8th
5th
3rd
DNP
DNP
DNP
5th
Regional
2nd
9th
1st
4th
7th
?
2nd
State
6th
4th
2nd
DNP
4th
DNP+
4th
+ The event Scrambler was not scored because no terminal barrier was used and distances were incorrectly measured.
2014–2015
Air Trajectory
Bridge Building
Disease Detectives
Mission Possible
Scrambler
Wright Stuff
Team
Invitational
2nd
3rd
1st
10th
DNP
9th
1st
Regional
2nd
1st
2nd
4th
DNP
14th
2nd
State
12th
5th
13th
3rd
P+
3rd
3rd
+ our Scrambler device stopped working and eventually broke at the competition - still salty about it :(+ During competition, our Scrambler launcher failed to trigger the vehicle.
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