text: despite the fact that nobody understands a kid but a kid letting students desighn their own projects also helps them unlock their creative potential and as far as mental health these students are actually doing something productive and are occupied on something that is not their hand held devices. not only that kids are discovering things about themselves they had no idea about for example my cusin hateed cooking but when she toool culanary her teacher let the classswhat ever they wantes as a project for their final grade she made a suflay not only did she pass with a 100% she discovered that she liked cooking and wanted to study collage.