As part of Philly’s first high-school coding competition, 10 teams of young coders spent weeks working on their web development projects with oversight from mentors.

In the end, the grand prize of $1,000 at the Coded by Kids Ctrl+ Shift coding competition — awarded on June 23 at Saxbys HQ — went to a trio of 16-year-old developers from South Philly’s Academy at Palumbo.

Fermata, an educational website for lovers of music theory was the winning project created by Tamir Gorham, Morgan Wilson and Hadi Hijazi. The site riffs on the Jeopardy! format to quiz visitors on musical notation, genres and instrument families.

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