text: Learning is meant to be engaging and interesting and student-designed projects encourages this type of learning. With student-designed summer projects, the topics that can be discussed and learned about are endless. The student has the wide range of topics they can learn about and portray their learning in a creative way so that it is an engaging and interesting experience for the student. Depending on the subject, the student can use his hobbies to create something that appeals to their interests so that they're using this experience to actually learn in an academic manner. Teacher-designed summer projects are usually limited to a small range of possibilities in terms of topics where the student is forced to learn about something unappealing which makes the learning expirecne ineffective for the students, where as student-designed projects let the students use their own interests to create a topic in which they think will most effectively complete the project