text: School requires studying, tests, practicing, and now doing what is called a summer project. This means doing something over summer break that relates to some sort of school subject. Students should be able to design their own summer projects because it is their time off, they would have the luxury of choosing their own topic, and they would learn the importance of constructing and designing their own project. Teachers could argue that there are more learning benefits for the students if it is teacher-designed, but at the end of the day, summer is supposed to be a time off from instructional learning.