text: The average person is in school about fourteen years. As you go through school you grow and you have to take on some responsibility. You have to do homework, projects, etc. While youre in school it is easy to accept these responsibilities, because you have a teacher and other student there to remind you of what you need to do. However, over the summer the only person there to be reminded by is yourself, and its difficult to remember something you're not interested in. By giving students the chance to design their own summer projects , you are putting them in a position to take responsibility. Not only for planning it, but for actually completing the assignment as well.