text: Additionally, summer projects will help prepare students for the year round work involved in a real-world job. Schools main purpose is to prepare students and young adults for the work environment experienced in the real world, and therefore need to be realistic to cause good work ethic and consistency. If students, who have no real conception of the outside world, design their own projects, they will be too easy on themselves and not advance their skills. Teachers, on the other hand, who have a complementary knowledge of the workforce, will be able to create useful and realistically challenging projects.