text: Student-designed projects also bring out individuality. When someone is picking your project for you, you do not have much say in what goes into it. Picking the project gives the student independence and diversity. They do not have to follow a list of guidelines that someone else has set up for them. The students get a chance to be themselves without teachers telling them exactly what to do. This will help them when they get out of high school because there will not always be an adult there to guide you through.