HackPrinceton
Princeton's flagship student hackathon. Kevin's relationship with it spans three roles: high-school competitor, Princeton organizer/lead developer, and Dedalus Labs sponsor/operator.
What HackPrinceton Is
HackPrinceton is Princeton University's flagship student hackathon, drawing hundreds of students for intensive build sprints. It is run by a student organizing committee and funded by corporate sponsors. Kevin's project graph treats HackPrinceton as an event-operations system, not only a club: event brand, seasonal landing pages, applicant surfaces, judging logistics, sponsor operations, and live event execution all connect here.
| Phase | When | Kevin's role | Project evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Competitor | High school | Part of a 13-hackathon winning streak | Hackathon Projects |
| Organizer / lead developer | 2024-2025 | Built HackPrinceton seasonal sites and helped run the event | PortfolioMon HackPrinceton cards; GitHub website repos |
| Sponsor | Fall 2025, Spring 2026 | Represented Dedalus Labs, mentored teams, presented Dedalus Machines | User LinkedIn post; Dedalus Labs |
Source: User LinkedIn post, 2026-04-22; Resume, Kevin B. Liu; raw/sites/kevinliu-biz-2026-07-01/portfolio-projects.json
Seasonal Site Evidence
The PortfolioMon scrape shows three HackPrinceton website cards. These should be folded into this parent page, because each seasonal site is evidence of the same event-ops ownership surface.
| Season | Site | Repo | Screenshot | PortfolioMon evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2024 | https://hack-princeton-fall-2024-demo.vercel.app/ | HackPrinceton-Demo-Fall-2024 |  |
First HackPrinceton site Kevin built as lead developer; established the design template used for future seasons. |
| Spring 2025 | https://hack-princeton-spring-2025-demo.vercel.app/ | HackPrinceton-Demo-Spring-2025 |  |
Responsive site with animated sections, hackathon branding components, and application-portal integration. |
| Fall 2025 | https://hack-princeton-fall-2025-demo.vercel.app/ | HackPrinceton-Demo-Fall-2025 |  |
Lead-developer landing page with animated hero, schedule timelines, sponsor carousel, and custom applicant portal. |
Website and Tooling Family
Kevin's HackPrinceton software work is a small event stack: marketing surfaces, templates, application/demo pages, and judging logistics. Podium is the standalone judging control plane; seasonal website repos stay folded here.
| Repo / page | Role | Deployment | Page decision |
|---|---|---|---|
| HackPrinceton-Demo-Fall-2024 | Fall 2024 demo website | https://hack-princeton-demo.vercel.app | Fold into this page |
| HackPrinceton-Landing-Page | Spring 2025 landing page | https://hackprinceton-wheat.vercel.app | Fold into this page |
| HackPrinceton-Demo-Spring-2025 | Spring 2025 demo website | https://hack-princeton-spring-2025-demo.vercel.app | Fold into this page |
| HackPrinceton-Demo-Fall-2025 | Fall 2025 demo website | https://hack-princeton-fall-2025-demo.vercel.app/ | Fold into this page |
| HackPrinceton-Landing-Page-Template | Reusable landing-page template | https://hackprinceton-template.vercel.app/ | Fold into this page |
| Podium | Judging coordinator for large-scale hackathons | https://hackprinceton-podium.vercel.app/ | Standalone page because it is a reusable operations product |
Source: raw/github/kevin-repos-2026-07-01.json; Podium
Dedalus Sponsor Arc
As a Dedalus sponsor, Kevin presented Dedalus Machines to a packed lecture hall, mentored teams at the Dedalus booth, and helped turn a company platform into a hackathon primitive. Students built agentic workflows on Dedalus Machines in 36 hours using an API key and new docs, including projects the Dedalus team had not imagined. This is the cleanest full-circle arc: hackathon competitor -> Princeton organizer -> startup sponsor/operator. Source: User LinkedIn post, 2026-04-22
People Connections
Several wiki person pages reference HackPrinceton:
- Mark Rubin, Riya Pawar, Ray Kong, Caleb Kha-Uong - HackPrinceton-tagged peers
- People Network Ledger, People Network Ledger, Simon Kupchik - HackPrinceton orbit
- People Network Ledger, David Liu (Princeton), Athan Zhang - broader Princeton-adjacent context
Filing Rule
Do not create separate longform pages for HackPrinceton seasonal landing pages unless one becomes independently important. Add new seasons here, update Podium for judging/control-plane work, and use Project Inventory Ledger for the raw repo inventory.
Timeline
- 2024-10-14 | HackPrinceton-Demo-Fall-2024 repo created. Source: raw/github/kevin-repos-2026-07-01.json
- 2025-01-21 | HackPrinceton-Demo-Spring-2025 repo created. Source: raw/github/kevin-repos-2026-07-01.json
- 2025-03 | Kevin organized HackPrinceton Spring 2025. Source: Resume, Kevin B. Liu
- 2025-04-28 | HackPrinceton-Landing-Page repo created for the Spring 2025 landing surface. Source: raw/github/kevin-repos-2026-07-01.json
- 2025-07-16 | HackPrinceton-Demo-Fall-2025 repo created. Source: raw/github/kevin-repos-2026-07-01.json
- 2025-10 | Dedalus Labs first sponsored HackPrinceton. Source: User LinkedIn post, 2026-04-22
- 2026-04-18 | Dedalus Labs sponsored HackPrinceton Spring 2026. Kevin presented Dedalus Machines, mentored teams, and published the full-circle reflection. Source: User LinkedIn post, 2026-04-22
- 2026-04-22 | Wiki page created. Source: agent, 2026-04-22
- 2026-06-25 | Added HackPrinceton website/tooling map and linked Podium as the judging control plane. Source: User request, 2026-06-25; raw/github/kevin-repos-2026-06-25.json
- 2026-07-01 | Rebuilt the page around the current PortfolioMon cards, live GitHub repo inventory, screenshot assets, and the fold-into-parent decision for seasonal HackPrinceton sites. Source: User request, 2026-07-01; raw/sites/kevinliu-biz-2026-07-01/portfolio-projects.json; raw/github/kevin-repos-2026-07-01.json