text: Another reason student-designed projects are beneficial is that student-designed tasks have higher completion rates. This means that if teenagers are doing something that they want to do, it is much more likely to be completed than a task they deem boring. Not a single person on this beautiful planet of ours has the exact same interests. If students were allowed to create a piece based off of one of their interests, that piece is going to get done. When you allow for passion in a workplace, the results are outstanding. For example, a student who has an interest in photography could be assigned a summer project for their ecology class. This student could then create a portfolio of different types of plants and animals they encountered over the summer. To make this project educational, they could including a listing of the different species along with some details about their respective characteristics. A differing student in the same class who takes an interest in athletics, could take specimens of grasses and dirt from playing fields. From here, they could examine the biology and impact of the different types of sports fields on their respective sports.