text: Most students would think the project is important because they pick it themselves. No one wants to be doing school work during there break, if the student chooses the project there is more incentive to not do it. Summer vacation is about 3 months long, a teenagers brain will forget many things over the span of 3 months,therefore, teachers watch carefully and pick a project that will help everyone remember something important for next year. Teachers can also make more elaborate and fun projects, instead of doing a simple poster board or power point that the student would likely choose and do something in the community. For example,a teacher wants her class to stay up to date on there economics during the summer, but she knows she must design them because her class would just make essays and slideshows, she wanted more for her students not just writing and researching.