text: Summer projects should be student-designed because students know which projects other students will find interesting. If summer projects are boring and tedious, students won't want to learn anything. If they do things that are more fun and involving then they will definitely learn more and better, which is the entire purpose of assigning summer projects. When teachers assign projects, most of the time they aren't as fun because the teachers just want to get the point across and in the end hope that the students understand. When the students design the project, they know for certain that the students will learn from them because they themselves are students. Teachers may assign packets of worksheets or book reports that need to be completed by the beginning of the school year. However, when you ask students to fill out a packet, they don't really learn anything because frankly it's not that interesting. If students design the projects, they might have the students do an experiment that involves them more so that they can learn better. They might also design projects where students can work together on an experiment, and when two minds work on something, it always leads to better acquisition of the information. Collaborating with others is also a great way to learn, especially over the break,