text: Having a student design their own project shows what they have learned throughout the school year. If a teacher was to design a project for a class of students, most of them will not even try. Most of them would try to find ways to finish the project without showing that they had learned anything during the school year. But having a student design their own project shows that they have learned something during the school year, and had a decent knowledge of what they had learned. Also a student-designed project will make the student not feel rushed.