Printing Passion
Paly’s 2026 yearbook follows the students, collaboration, and design decisions behind Art + Tech’s first year.
Story and design by Oliver Reid · Photos courtesy of Selim Uyan
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Join us Project 01 / Year One
Palo Alto High School · 2025–2026
Words We Live By
Two hundred interviews. Twenty-six values. One dimensional portrait of the words Paly students choose to carry.
From voice to form
A public work built by asking first.
Club members interviewed more than 200 students, gathered the values that appeared most often, and translated those responses into individually designed, 3D-printed word tiles. The finished piece was unveiled on January 14, 2026.
The wall label includes Braille, low-vision text, and a text-to-speech QR component designed to help more people encounter the work. Material-conscious fabrication and a modular construction keep the system thoughtful in both meaning and making.
200+student interviews
26value words
01.14.26community unveiling
“There’s certainly life behind the artwork.”Evan Lu, Art + Tech member
Press highlight
Words We Live By, in focus.
InFocus News follows the installation from student interviews to its place outside the Wellness Center.
Project 02 / Year One
PAHS Art + Tech × SHS Art Club · 2026
Interwoven
A 6-by-6 field of Passion Windows showing how identity can remain distinct while belonging to something larger.
Drawn there. Engineered here.
Collaboration as a design system.
More than 400 students across both schools were asked about their passions. Saratoga High School Art Club turned the responses into two-dimensional icon sketches; Paly Art + Tech transformed those drawings into layered, mathematically unified 3D Passion Windows.
The work moved back and forth through questions, revisions, test prints, and material constraints. That exchange—not a single tool or author—is what gave the installation its final form.
400+student interviews
36Passion Windows
2school communities
“This is just the beginning.”James Trounce, Art + Tech member
03 / In the press
Seen, shared, written about.
A reader for the school publications and community voices that followed the work. Each entry is summarized here and linked to its original source or full on-site reader. Preview images have been upscaled for clarity.
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