text: In allowing students to decide the topic you are allowing their brains to become willing to be stimulated, the human attention span is a mere 10 minutes. This means in order for students to continue to learn from these projects they must first be greatly interested in what it is the are researching, the brain must be able to cling to the topic so it isnt as easily swayed to a new more "exciting" activity like watching TV or playing video games. When a student spends their summer learning alongside the fun they become more willing to learn because then they still have fun whereas many students feel trapped with the day to day felling school cause this is what makes their attention span so short lived.