text: When these projects during the summer are assigned, students should be interested in the topic of it. If it doesn't seek their interest, they will get lazy and procrastinate since it is the summer time. Typically, students think of summer time as vacation and fun. For example, if a student is interested and passionate about sports but the teacher assigns a summer project about researching plants. Then the student will do a less efficient job on the project, thus resulting in the student not learning as much as they could've. Continuing to learn during break is the whole point of a summer project. So it's better that projects are student based to do it efficiently than to just half way do it and turn it in.