text: Student-designed projects allow them to foster interests in other subjects outside of school. Student-designed projects means that the project can be about any subject and can be made in any way. This gives students a platform to make a project about their passion or an entirely new hobby or subject that they are interested in. For example, I once spent a summer learning how to program as it was a relatively new subject to me. The idea of being able to assign a computer a task and it being able to respond back to me was quite interesting and, because of this, I was quite invested in the assignment and spent my summer learning something completely new. Students could experience the same thing by spending the summer learning about a new subject that may end up becoming a passion or hobby for them. With this, they learn new things and spend their summer doing something that they enjoy and may continue to enjoy throughout the rest of the year. Because of this, student-designed projects allow students to pursue potential passions outside of the restrictions of teacher-based projects.