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Bianca Rivera

Bianca is a school librarian at East Islip School District where she leads a Technology Club for grades 3-5 students.

Code a Choose Your Adventure Game

Code a Choose Your Adventure Game

April 2024 Issue / 2 minutes / Programming / Bianca Rivera

Share and Publish Twine Stories

Share and Publish Twine Stories

October 2023 / 3 minutes / Computer Programming Projects & Puzzles for Kids / Intermediate / Bianca Rivera

Mad Libs with BBC micro:bit

Mad Libs with BBC micro:bit

August 2023 / 2 minutes / Beginner / Electronics Articles for Kids / Bianca Rivera

Sharing and Publishing Twine Stories

Sharing and Publishing Twine Stories

February 2023 / 3 minutes / Beginner / Best Practices / Computer Programming Projects & Puzzles for Kids / Intermediate / Programming / Bianca Rivera

Add Styling and Multimedia to Twine Stories

Add Styling and Multimedia to Twine Stories

December 2022 / 2 minutes / Beginner / Computer Programming Projects & Puzzles for Kids / Intermediate / Programming / Bianca Rivera

Interactive Fiction Using Twine

Interactive Fiction Using Twine

October 2022 / 3 minutes / Computer Programming Projects & Puzzles for Kids / Kids Coding Articles / Programming / Bianca Rivera

Responsive Web Design Using Grid View

Responsive Web Design Using Grid View

June 2022 / 2 minutes / Computer Programming Projects & Puzzles for Kids / Kids Coding Articles / Programming / Bianca Rivera

Responsive Web Design

Responsive Web Design

April 1, 2022 / 3 minutes / Programming / Bianca Rivera

Scratch Fractured Fairy Tales

Scratch Fractured Fairy Tales

December 2021 / 2 minutes / Beginner / Intermediate / Scratch Coding Games for Kids / Bianca Rivera

Fractured Fairy Tales, Part 2

Fractured Fairy Tales, Part 2

October 2021 / 2 minutes / Intermediate / Programming / Scratch Coding Games for Kids / Bianca Rivera

Fractured Fairy Tales in Scratch

Fractured Fairy Tales in Scratch

June 2021 / 2 minutes / Beginner / Programming / Bianca Rivera

The Emoji Generator

The Emoji Generator

April 2021 / 2 minutes / Beginner / Coding Concepts Articles for Kids / Computer Programming Projects & Puzzles for Kids / Intermediate / Programming / Bianca Rivera

Roll a Story OOP

Roll a Story OOP

December 2020 / 3 minutes / Intermediate / Programming / Bianca Rivera

Roll a Story

Roll a Story

October 2020 / 8 minutes / Computer Programming Projects & Puzzles for Kids / Programming / Bianca Rivera

Minecraft EDU

Minecraft EDU

August 1, 2020 / 3 minutes / Programming / Bianca Rivera

Raspberry Pi Jam

Raspberry Pi Jam

June 1, 2020 / 3 minutes / Beginner / Bianca Rivera

Lego Mindstorms and MicroPython

Lego Mindstorms and MicroPython

April 2020 / 2 minutes / Beginner / Programming / Bianca Rivera

Coding Critters

Coding Critters

December 2019 / 2 minutes / Beginner / Computer Programming Projects & Puzzles for Kids / Bianca Rivera

Botley the Coding Robot

Botley the Coding Robot

October 2019 / 3 minutes / Beginner / Computer Programming Projects & Puzzles for Kids / Bianca Rivera

STEAM Lab Jr

STEAM Lab Jr

August 2019 / 2 minutes / Beginner / Computer Programming Projects & Puzzles for Kids / Bianca Rivera

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I sent two emails a week with links to STEM/STEAM articles, news, and resources for kids, parents, teachers, librarians. My goal was to help educate, inspire, and amuse.

30 STEM Links was the natural evolution of a kids STEM computing magazine that I published for 11 years in print and online. It was called beanz magazine. This website has both the 11 years of magazine content and the one year of email newsletter content.

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beanz Magazine Testimonials

"I love beanz because it's got a lot of coding stuff and I want to try coding as a career. Also, it's got Scratch tips the books won't teach you."

— Lillian in Virginia

"As a former teacher turned homeschooling parent, I LOVE (love, love!) when cross-curricular learning takes place. Each of the projects and ideas included in beanz require a child to employ cross-curricular skills. A child isn't simply coding or creating a Roblox account. Kids are using math, science, art, or critical thinking."

— A Parent