New Dawn Estates
New Dawn Estates is an online virtual care center where Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) candidates can access training. Supported by the United States Department of Agriculture, this training program addresses the requirements to certify Nursing Assistants. Both lecture-based and skill-based content are delivered through realistic scenarios, in-depth assessment and meaningful remediation using beautiful 3D graphics, animations, audio and text appealing to a variety of learning styles. In this role-playing simulation, the trainee makes decisions as a virtual caregiver on how to care for the virtual resident. Situations occur which foster learning of the content traditionally presented in self-study and lecture-based class work. The focus of this training is on quality of life issues—relationship building, empathy, and compassion. The program is structured into 30 minute increments and accessible online 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Anticipated completion date is November 1, 2005, with the skill-based program scheduled for release in May 2006.

Creature Control Science Series
The pullUin software team has developed educational video games, based upon national education standards, that support science and health curricula.

• Creature Control: The Quest for Homeostasis is a middle school science unit that teaches students the concept of homeostasis. Developed through a grant from the United States Department of Education, this game engages students in a virtual world where they must keep their creature in a state of equilibrium while trying to survive in a world that plunges into a vast array of temperatures from arctic snow to tropical heat. View a demo of the game by clicking here.
• Creature Control: Diffusion is both an alcohol prevention program and a science module to teach the concept of diffusion. It presents the science behind use and abuse of alcohol using metaphors and gameplay. Through this module, students gain an understanding about the science concept of diffusion and the effects of alcohol use and abuse. The development of this program is supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA).

Nightingale Virtual Laboratory
pullUin software is working with The University of South Dakota’s School of Nursing to produce online clinical skills training for their nursing program through funding from a Department of Labor grant awarded to the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society.

MDS Training Program
pullUin software has developed an online tool for Sioux Valley Hospitals and Health Systems to assist nursing home personnel in completing the Minimum Data Set forms that fulfill Federal Government compliance guidelines. This interactive tutorial gives personnel practice in completing documents that meet federal regulations.

National Geographic Handheld Birds
Birdwatchers are now able to use handheld devices to identify birds throughout North America with software developed by pullUin software. Through partnerships with the National Geographic Society, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and the American Birding Association, this software incorporates bird songs and calls with illustrations and text-based content to create the first in a series of electronic field guides. Supported by the National Science Foundation in conjunction with The University of South Dakota, this software provides the revolutionary ability to use multiple criteria to cross index the bird data in real time. Unlike the paper-based field guides that are constrained to indexing birds by phylogenetic listing or color, this software delivers several innovative features including a regionalized “smart” indexing and data search mechanism.