text: During the school year, students are expected to learn through the guidance of the teacher. While some people enjoy this structure, many feel their creativity is being repressed. A survey done on high schools students, asking about how they feel they have the ability to represent themselves through schoolwork, 75% feel that they do not have the option to express themselves with their current workload. With a self-led summer project students could continue learning through the break, by studying a topic that interests them which, in turn, inspires them to create a more thought out end result.