text: Finally, I think the projects should be student designed because it also gets the student thinking more since they have to come up with a project from scratch rather than reading it off a piece of paper. With most teacher designed projects they give you an option or two to do this or that which makes it easier on the student to just pick a topic and talk about it. With a student designed project the student has to come up with a topic from a stand still start. This gets the student thinking more to find something to talk about then figure out what direction they are going to go with it; speech, PowerPoint, essay, etc. In my opinion that is the best way to do summer projects so the student thinks for themselves and at their own pace rather than doing something they are made to do and then have to rush to finish it because they don't know how hard it will be or if they have enough time at all.