text: One reason why summer projects should be student-designed is because it would cause the students to become more enthusiastic about it. Most students would not be very pleased when finding out that they have been tasked with a project during the summer. This displeasure would grow even more if the project was teacher-designed and containing a topic of which they hold no interest in. This would result in the students doing the projects just to do them and obtaining little to no knowledge while doing so. However, if the project was student-designed, the students would be able to pick a topic they are interested in and passionate about. This would cause them to become more enthusiastic about it, and maybe might even make the students happy and excited about doing it. Because they would have enthusiasm while doing it, they would also retain a lot more knowledge and information from it making it much more beneficial and better achieving the assignment's purpose. In the end, summer projects should be student-designed, because it would cause students to become more enthusiastic about it.