By Evy Shen

Published May 13, 2025, The Stanford Daily [link to article]

In the “mission control room” at Packard 124, Stanford Escape — the team of computer science, electrical engineering and math majors behind Stanford’s first in-house escape room — huddles around a large screen, watching participants in the room next door navigate a series of interactive, multimedia puzzles.

Stanford Escape is an ad hoc team organized primarily to design and build the escape room, which is free and open for booking by Stanford students and faculty from May 1 to 17. The room welcomes players from all backgrounds and experience levels and is also open to tours for booking. The organizing and engineering team predominantly consists of Stanford Association of Computer Machinery (ACM) and Stanford Robotics club members.

“Most of the team is our friends we’ve made through engineering clubs for the past four years, or [problem] sets or robotics projects. We thought it’d be really cool to put these skills to use for a really fun community wide escape room,” said Sydney Yan ’25, co-lead of Stanford Escape and president of ACM.

Read the full article, 'Meet Stanford Escape: The team behind Stanford’s first in-house escape room.'