Are you a school administrator interested in teaching children about the hazards of cyber bullying? An airline employee looking to educate your passengers in terms of safer air travel? An Army colonel hoping to ease the re-integration process for soldiers returning from war? These are just a few of many possibilities Sharon Sloane, WILL Interactive’s President and CEO, envisions for this contest.

“We want to cast a really wide net and find out what the public or organizations that we haven’t worked with are thinking about with regard to ways that WILL’s simulations could improve society,” Sloane said.

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Basically, they are asking for people to submit ideas for a full-blown educational simulation that, if deployed, would have a positive social impact. WILL will then pick one of the submissions and create and distribute it.

Frankly, if almost any other sim company offered this, I would be less excited.

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WILL also showed a new program as part of the festival:

Among the more unusual films is an interactive documentary short called “The War Inside” that allows viewers to play characters and change the course of the plot. The film is intended to be used in therapy for service members and their families dealing with post traumatic stress and other emotional struggles associated with life after deployment. During the screening, audience members will be given hand-held devices that will allow them to vote for how characters should respond in certain situations.

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Soldiers will begin values training with seven sessions, one per value, according to Wanda Majors, chief of instructional programs for CAPE. Each session will include three video case studies — one set in basic training, another in garrison and the third in combat. The case studies are interviews with real soldiers followed by questions.

“The case studies drive some real deep discussion and allow the drill sergeants to gear the discussion toward a specific value,” Majors said.

Find out more about Vet-Works here.