text: If a student gets to design the project they will feel more in control of the task at hand. Most students don't really get to control what they learn or how they learn and thats just not how it should be. There whole day and schedule is already controlled and you want the teachers to be able to control something else in there education? It gives students the confidence to know they are able to control one part of there education. Everything else in there life is already controlled parents and teachers so why not let them be able to control there summer projects.