PROMYS Alumni Survey - July 2009

Thank you for participating in this confidential survey of PROMYS alumni attending the 20 Years of PROMYS Celebration. The purpose of the survey is to increase our understanding and to help us define what research questions we can most productively pursue. Aggregated data may be shared with the National Science Foundation and/or others; no individual’s name or identifying information will appear. Please feel free to skip questions. Answer windows will expand to accommodate long answers.

Your Name:

Name when at PROMYS, if different:

Date of Birth (month/day/year):

E-Mail:

Preferred telephone number:

Home Address

Marital Status:

Do you have children?

Nationality:

Native or first languages(s):

(optional) With what races/ethnicities do you self-identify?

During which years were you at PROMYS, and for which were you a student, junior counselor, or counselor?

Did you attend any other summer programs during high school? If so, please specify programs and years:

Was your high school public, private, magnet, charter, parochial, homeschool, or other?

Undergrad College or University	Years Attended	Area(s) of Concentration/Major	Degree

Undergrad College or University	Years Attended	Area(s) of Concentration/Major	Degree

Graduate/Post Graduate School	Years Attended	Area(s) of Concentration/Major	Degree

Graduate/Post Graduate School	Years Attended	Area(s) of Concentration/Major	Degree

Graduate/Post Graduate School	Years Attended	Area(s) of Concentration/Major	Degree

What is your current occupation?

How long have you worked in this sphere/job?

Please rate your professional life overall: 1(personally unsatisfying) to 10(highly fulfilling)

Please describe your career path:

What role, if any, do you think PROMYS played in the educational and professional choices you made? Was it positive and, if so, in what respect(s)? Was it significant?

What, in essence, are your long-term professional goals?

Do you plan further formal study?

If relevant, please describe any research experiences you have had:

If relevant, please describe any teaching/mentoring experiences you have had:

What do you think were the goals of the PROMYS program? In what ways were they achieved or not achieved?

What, to you, are/were the most important aspects of the program?

In what ways, if any, did your participation in PROMYS alter your perception of yourself?

In what ways, if any, did your participation in PROMYS affect your plans, your aspirations, or your attitudes towards education, school, math, collaboration, mentoring, college or anything else of value to you?

Have you remained in contact with people you met through PROMYS? If so, please elaborate:

In what ways, if any, is math (or the thought processes you developed through math) important in your professional/personal life?

What do you think we should have asked you about the effect of and the effectiveness of the program?

Is there anything else we should know?