text: Students are very lazy when they start to get closer to summer and to the break, they don't want to deal with the stress of the school. Having a project over the summer is the last thing that a student wants to do, so if they have the option of choosing what to do they will always chose something that isn't going to challenge them in anyway and will chose to do a easy topic that they can get done fast, that they already know, or that they have done before. For students summer is supposed to be the break from school and going out and having fun with friends and family, having vacations, and having a project to do over the summer break isn't really a break anymore. Summer break is more of an excuse for students to have fun and not worry about anything, but if you put a project for them to do they understand that they have to get it done while having a pretty long time to do it right, others will leave it for last minute. However this over the break project gives students about 2 months to get it done without having to be stressed, being able to do it at their own pace. That is why teachers assign the different project to each student, because they want the student to succeed by giving them something that, as a teacher, they know what they outcome would or could be and for the student to be challenged, yet doing something they can comprehend.