text: Allowing a student-designed project would be more beneficial for students because they know how much they can handle. One thing that students struggle with over the school year is constant stress and the workload of classes. Coupled with extracurriculars, eating, and sleeping, there is not an abundant amount of time left for the students. As such, students have to be extra organized in order to make time for every activity. Because they are able to do this, letting students design their own project would assure that the students do not have an overbearing workload all summer long. A teachers schedule is much different than their students; so if a teacher designed their project, they would not be able to accurately plan according to how much each student could bear. Summer break is also supposed to act as a break from school, thus students should not be put over the same stress during summer break as they are during the school year. The only way to ensure this is to let the students design their projects.