text: The first reason summer projects should be teacher-designed is that teachers can design these projects based off of the course curriculum. Students may find these projects less engaging, but in reality they can help expose the student to what the course is going to be like/cover. All students schedule their classes for the following year sometime during the second semester of their current school year. Sometimes, students don't really have a sense of what is going to be covered in a certain class, especially if the course name doesn't do a very good job of describing what is actually going to be taught. For example, I am in my junior year of high school and just scheduled my classes for my senior year. I was debating whether to take AP Government or DE Government. By just looking off these two class names, you can't really tell what the difference is between the AP version and the DE version. With teacher-designed projects, teachers can show what is going to be taught to the students during the summer which may give them an idea of what class will be like. Overall, have summer projects be designed by teachers can help prepare students for the class they decided to take and gives a different perspective of some topics that will be covered throughout the year.