Credit: Saskia Keller, National Wildlife Health Center.

You begin a program to develop a vaccine that will protect snakes from infection. This will require extensive laboratory work to develop a potential vaccine and then experimentally test it on snakes in the wild. To start the program, advance 2 ticks/weeks and subtract $500,000 from your budget. Note the current tick/week number; in 104 ticks (2 years), you can apply the vaccine to wild snakes. While you wait on vaccine development, what do you do next?

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Option 1: Do another intervention.

Time Cost: Depends on which intervention you select

Monetary Cost: Depends on which intervention you select

Charisma Effect: Unknown

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Option 2: Apply for more money for research or control efforts.

Time Cost: 4 Weeks/Ticks

Monetary Cost: $0

Charisma Effect: Unknown

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Option 3: Do more research.

Time Cost: It depends on which research option you choose

Monetary Cost: It depends on which research option you choose

Charisma Effect: Unknown

Credit: Saskia Keller, National Wildlife Health Center.

Educational games increase student engagement and learning. This game was created by S. Hopkins, PhD and is free to adapt and use. The corresponding NetLogo model and student worksheet are available on QUBESHub at http://dx.doi.org/10.25334/1XBQ-M835.