text: I find it to be the case with almost every student I know that they are caught in the situation that on the first day of school when a teacher goes over what they learned last year they struggle to remember even the basics the material. One of the biggest problems with students today is that they lose intrest in the subject matter over the summer, and as a result don't retain a lot of the imformation that they had learned throughout the previous school year. a student designed project can help aleviate some of these problems by allowing students to work on a subject matter that potentially intrests them more than one chosen for them. Personally when I am allowed to choose my subject matter for a project I need to work on I find myself much more motivated to complete it than with teacher designed projects.