text: Each year brings new topics to learn for students. Their teachers prepare units for them to ensure they pass the class, and at the end of the year, students walk away with a plethora of new information they learned that year. Summer projects have the purpose of preparing us for the upcoming year, and how can students design a project meant to enhance their learning into the coming school year, if theyre not sure what they're going to learn? I understand they could be told in advance a topic that they'll be studying in the upcoming year and design their projects to be about that, but I don't believe that would be the best way to go about it. Their teachers know exactly what the students will need to know in the next year because theyre the ones that will be making the tests, grading their work, and teaching the students. If the teachers can assign the students to research and learn exactly what they'll need to know, it will optimize their learning and the students will enter the coming school year more prepared.