HackPrinceton Podium
Podium is the infrastructure story behind Kevin's HackPrinceton arc: from winning streak competitor to organizer shipping the judging stack itself.
Kevin's HackPrinceton relationship spans three phases: high school competitor (part of a 13-hackathon winning streak), Spring 2025 organizer, and Fall 2025 / Spring 2026 sponsor representing private page. Source: HackPrinceton
Podium is Kevin's hackathon judging and event management platform built for HackPrinceton. Source: Kevin Liu It sits alongside other shipped projects (Princeton Tower Defense, Lumachor, RecyclAIble) as proof he builds ops tooling, not only demos.
Spring 2026 sponsorship layered product on top of platform. Kevin presented Dedalus Machines with sub-50ms cold starts to a packed lecture hall, mentored teams at the Dedalus booth, and watched students build agentic workflows on DMs in 36 hours with only an API key and fresh docs. Source: HackPrinceton Podium is the backstage; Dedalus sponsorship is the front-of-house.
HackPrinceton runs on a student organizing committee, so it works as a social graph as much as an event. Source: HackPrinceton
Timeline
- Pre-2024 | Competitor phase; 13-hackathon winning streak referenced. Source: HackPrinceton
- 2025-Spring | Organizer role; Podium platform in project highlights. Source: Kevin Liu; HackPrinceton
- 2026-04-22 | Dedalus Spring 2026 sponsorship; Machines demo and mentorship. Source: HackPrinceton
- 2026-05-31 | Story page compiled. Source: compiled from wiki graph