text: Before you get advice, ask someone that has experience it before or know about it. If they've never experience it before or know about it then they could give you the wrong advice or they wont know. I ask for multiple advice before and it works out well because someone gave me a lot of advice to a certain problem I had. So this is a good idea if you need some advice.  Summer projects are immensely helpful in order to keep your mind active and intelligent when your're not in school, constantly stimulated by academic subjects. However, the summer projects should be student-designed rather than teacher designed. Students making the projects know what will help their peers learn throughout the summer, they know what they have truly learned rather than what teachers assumed they have been taught by other teachers, and they have the opportunity to showcase their creativity and passions through the project they complete. In order to be most successful, students should have authority to be creative and responsible for their summer projects.