text: Teachers should certainly design summer projects because if students were to design them, there would be significant issues. One problem posed by students designing their own summer projects would be that students might design projects unrelated to what they are doing at school. This would not harm their education, but it would certainly be a waste of time and energy if students were to arbitrarily choose their project and dedicate time and effort to it, and in the end have it be useless to helping them further their education; this is especially wasteful in the context of being able to put that time to something else productive. Another problem posed by having students design their own projects is that their projects may not be stimulating or challenging. Even if students managed to design experiments relevant to their schooling, it is unlikely that the project that they design will stimulate a higher level of thinking than they used previously.