text: Another reason I believe students learn more from projects they create is they get to pick the topics. Allowing the students to pick there own topics means that they can pick something that matters to them or that will have an impact on their lives. One example of this also comes from my middle school, in which we had to do a massive final project on anything we wanted and show it to the rest of the school. For one of these projects a student decided to plan out a summer vacation around the U.S he got to pick the destinations and everything they did, and because he got to create a project that relates to his life he was really excited about it and put in a lot of work for it. Another great example of this comes from Westerns community service days where students get to pick how they want to help their community's in ways such as donating food to food banks, volunteering at local elementary schools, fixing broken laptops from around the county, and many other great opportunities. One of the many reasons these days are so great is because you get to pick something your interested in or passionate about and use that to help the community.