text: Although teacher-designed summer projects tend to be more standardized and fairly graded, the benefits of student-designed summer projects are incomparable. Schools should implement the idea of student-designed projects to stimulate the students creativity. By making the switch to student-designed summer project, schools are encouraging their students to branch out and to get involved in topics that interest them. This betters the student body by allowing students to express their own interests, benefit from the information they are learning and pushes them to getting the most out of their summer work