A little tough to reason backwards from a win on this one. They haven't listed any judges: https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/virtual-hackathon-re...

The closest you can really find is that the prizes are from Lincoln Labs who seem more interested in politics. The about section mentions Romney, so probably republican. So if you have an education idea it should probably be more aimed toward private schools and Ivys and the like more than government programs since republicans are against government involvement in education in general.

It's important to know the judges in a hackathon. I've had judges kill project scores because they didn't know Google had announced Glass would have a GDK supporting native development, for example. Others who decided they loved games so only games could win, etc..