Choose Your Own Adventure: A GSB student reflects on TreeHacks 2026

Stanford already has an extraordinary density of brilliance. TreeHacks compresses that density even further — out of the sprawling campus and into the Jensen Huang Engineering Center for a single, electric weekend. Walking in, I realized immediately that this was a choose-your-own-adventure kind of experience, and that the adventure you picked said a lot about who you were.

Some teams arrived early with pre-formed squads and polished ideas, locking down conference rooms and setting up their own little empires.