In the fall of 1918, William Heard Kilpatrick published an influential essay entitled, “The Project Method” which caught the attention of American educators. Kilpatrick focused attention on the importance of student engagement (what we might today refer to as “flow”), and the student-chosen “purposeful act” of learning.¹  The goal of projects was to foster student motivation by allowing students to determine the “purposes” they wanted to pursue. Unless students were given unfettered voice and choice, schoolwork would only be daily drudgery, which was counterproductive to preparing democratic citizens, the ultimate aim of education.