text: Summer projects should be student designed because of ways it can teach students. Sometimes it can teach you how to manage your time, how to get work done in time, or give you an essay about what you learned during your summer break and how can it affect your life. It can even give you a task to research a specific topic and write a paper or journal about it. Sometimes summer projects will give you an easier task like reading a book over the summer and explain what you read once the school starts. There may be a project that requires you to make your own project.