text: Finally, summer projects should be student-designed because it will allow students to work on their own time. Summer vacation is always the perfect time to travel to other countries or just new places within the United States. Although, some of these places often do not have internet, or are hard to complete work in. If the summer projects are teacher-designed, then the project deadlines might interfere with travel, or aspects of the project may be impossible to complete while traveling. If students designed the project, then that would allow them to plan around vacations and also focus topics to where they are traveling. If a student is traveling to Spain and has an interest in Spanish history and horses, then they could complete a project on the influences of the Spanish Riding School of Sienna. This aspect of the project also helps to reduce the stress of students, because they would not have the constant worry of meeting project deadlines or requirements. The opposite side would argue that this would enable students to procrastinate on work, and not put in enough effort into the project. But, allowing students to design their own project would instead peak their interests, so they would feel encouraged to put effort into the project.