text: Summer projects should be teacher-designed in order to set up students for success in the long run. Everyone deserves a chance to succeed, and student-designed projects can harm this potential success. Even though some people think that students would create less stressful work, teachers should design summer projects to ensure that they are difficult enough, genuinely worth spending time on, and quality preparation for kids to thrive in class. It is important to be independent and take initiative, but it is more important to live a fulfilling life.The advancement of technology in the 21st century has offered different ways of learning for the students of today. One of those ways is known as distance learning, in which students learn from a class through online video conferencing at home. This method of learning is beneficial to students since class absences would not be as detrimental, it provides a different type of learning, and it becomes a greater convenience to students.