text: The main question about these summer projects is, should it be teacher lead to student lead? If students were to design their own assignments, it is most likely they would compensate for extra time and activities but they would also not create challenging and retentive assignments, as to allow themselves extra free time. If teachers designed the assignments, it would be harder to compensate for all the busy activities during the summer that the students will also be participating in, but they will create a consistent and advantageous project and remove student laziness from the equation.