text: These are my examples of why you should join the Seagoing Cowboys program. Surely, if you join you will be open to new experiences and opportunities as I was. I hope you take these reasons in consideration and join, I bet it'll be an opportunity of a lifetime!During the summer many students tend to loose the skills and information they gather through the previous school year. Some higher level courses to prevent this problem, implement summer reading activities or online module/guided programs to keep their students on top of the material or to refresh them... but with all schools come different teaching styles. Some teachers strive for their students to be more independent and do the work on their own, but other teachers like to have a rigorous and set rubric or outline of what projects and essays should look like. Summer projects should be teacher-designed because it eliminates the loopholes that can be found by the students, the teacher can incorporate the summer project into a future theme or unit in the school year, and if students designed a project for themselves they wouldn't challenge themselves and put minimal effort in.