[10] It used the design/build framework as a means of teaching critical thinking and creative skills that could support the students' future goals regardless of what kind of career or education they sought out after highschool.

[10] In 2013, the documentary If You Build It was created to document a year in the life of Studio H, focusing specifically on the Windsor Farmers Market project that sought to address the area's contradicting context as a food desert with rich agricultural legacy.

[11] In 2013, Pilloton-Lam moved the organization to Berkeley, California, under the new name Girls Garage, and shifted the mandate to specifically address the gender gap in the architecture and construction industries.

[15][1][16] Under this new name, the organization also moved away from the model of integrating workshops into high school curriculum, to create after-school and summer programming for girls and gender-diverse youth ages 9–18.

[4] She expressed that this decision was made to honor her Chinese lineage saying, "Today, March 17th, I am taking my mother’s maiden name, Lam, as a matriarchal hyphenate.