text: Students can hone their organizational skills by structuring a project without a teacher's strict guidelines. Although guidelines are arguably necessary to any graded assignment, a teacher should create guidelines based on creativity and display of knowledge rather than conformity. In a student-based project, organizational skills beneficial to academic success are engaged, such as deciding on a main idea, providing evidence and examples, using pictures or diagrams for clarity, and practicing presentation techniques. In math class last year, I was assigned a project in which the only requirement was to explain a mathematical concept. Despite not having any background knowledge about website creation, I decided to make a website. I learned how to insert links and tabs dedicated to different mathematical topics. This experience taught me how to organize information into digital form. The ability to independently design an assignment is educational in that it develops students' ability to organize information in a clear, methodical way.