There are three pools of votes: (1) General public (which was a close 115 to 104 in my favor); (2) Classrooms across the US (which was a close 9 to 8 in my favor); and (3) other competitors (which was almost 2:1 in my favor). An entry needs to win 2 out of 3 categories to progress which makes for some exciting tally counts.
Below is how my entry looked like as published compared to how I really wanted to have it look like but couldn't do short of using an image.