text: It is a proven fact that is both children and adults , an elevated interest in a topic directly correlates to success, if the student controls what they study then their interest will increase, ergo so will success. Not to mention the mental stimulation will greatly help the students overall ability to retain information and store what is and isnt useful even if what they a doing the project on isnt directly academic it is academically helping them. In doing these projects they are training their subconscious mind how to retain, store, and apply a topic in which they are researching. when doing these projects the students must actually want to do the work and must want to know more or show what they already do and the best way to do that is given them "guarded" control, by "guarded" meaning give them control of the subject and content but not so much the requirements. This will provide interest in the subject control of the direction but easily graded work.