Furthermore, many studies have shown that engaging students in the learning process, as is done in hands-on projects, has positive correlations with the improvement of a variety of outcomes that are desirable in undergraduate education. Among these are persistence in course work [8], increases in confidence and in the ability to transfer what students learned in one context to another [9], enhancements in cognitive development [10] and improvements in academic performance that manifest themselves in the form of better grades [11].