Surveys Requested: 34

Surveys Returned: 25

Response Rate: 73.5%

Overall Experience and Professional Development

The survey results indicate that MONET is successfully providing a valuable academic experience beyond what trainees' departments alone can offer:

• 18 respondents strongly agreed
• 7 slightly agreed
• No respondents we neutral or disagreed

This overwhelmingly positive response (100% agreement) suggests that MONET effectively broadens its participants' academic horizons.

Positive Highlights

1. Large center with a variety of opportunities, networking, and resources (mentioned by 13 respondents)
2. Strong sense of collaborative effort (mentioned by 11 respondents)
3. Feeling welcome in the community (mentioned by five respondents)

Career Impacts

MONET has positively influenced trainees' professional development and career aspirations in several ways:

• Providing networking opportunities and exposure to diverse expertise
• Offering collaboration across research groups
• Supporting educational opportunities outside of research
• Rekindling passion for science through multidisciplinary study
• Prompting consideration of careers in informal STEM education