Eleven government departments participate in the program, which aims, among other things, to "utilize small business to meet federal research and development needs.” An SBIR grant might come from the Department of Education, for example, or from the Department of Health and Human Services.Students could choose instead to sympathize with "Constance,” who likes British clothes and, according to her biography on the game's website, "agrees with her uncle that the Sons of Liberty should not interfere with the livelihoods of merchants who import goods from England.”