text: Student-designed projects motivate the students by providing them with the opportunities to choose a topic they are interested in. A student is more likely to complete a task they like than they are a project they dislike. As a student in the eleventh grade, I have had many summer projects over the years; I know students that have decides not to completed their assigned summer assignment due to a lack of interest of the topic of that specific project. If the students got to choose their own projects, there would be a lower percent of students who fail to complete their summer work. In general people have the tendency to be better motivated by eccentric drives; allowing a student to have a say in what they are interested in moves the focus of the project from getting a good grade which is an external reward to "what am I going to learn?", an interpersonal reward. Not only would this shift in motive change the students perspective of the work they are being given, but will also increase the amount of effort put into each aspect of the project. Allowing the students to pick their own projects will improve their performance and will allow them to take away more from the project than if they had done it without care.