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Brendan Giang

I build ways in for people who usually get left out.

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Math, computer science, and AI

Theater, film, and art

My best work happens where these two rooms meet.

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Standard Physics

We built an app that scans a room with an iPhone Pro or iPad Pro and flags ADA accessibility problems before a small business gets sued.

Best Use of marimo, CoreWeave Agent Loops Hackathon

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Hackathons for everyone

I’ve won all five hackathons I’ve entered, and at USC I’m working to open hackathons to people who aren’t engineers.

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A boy in a black suit with a pink boutonniere stands under strings of lights at night

Picture Perfect

I made Picture Perfect, a film that Paly’s peer consent and relationship workshops show to every freshman class.

Best Student Short, Crown Point International Film Festival

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Apparel sustainability label

Greenhouse gas emissions

Over its whole life, from fiber to disposal

TotalFilled in for each garment

Maker's commitment

Filled in for each garment

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Verified under EPA requirements

The climate label

I proposed a nutrition-style climate label for clothing in Threads of Change, a documentary that won 1st Prize at C‑SPAN StudentCam and aired nationally on C‑SPAN.

1st Prize, West Division, C‑SPAN StudentCam

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The documentary's host, in a suit, talks to the camera outside a shopping center
Threads of Change
Two friends smile at each other on a bed
Cake with the Cream
Students eat at long tables in a crowded cafeteria
Feeding Art
In a diner, an older man in an apron sets a cookie with a birthday candle in front of a teenager
Next Door Ahead
A girl in a pink dress and a wrist corsage stands by hedges wrapped in lights at night
Picture Perfect
A golden retriever asleep in its dog bed
Carus

G Studio

My film studio, G Studio, won 1st place for documentary film at the California State Thespian Festival in 2025 and again in 2026.

1st Place, Documentary Film, California State Thespian Festival

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FilmNo film

Does a film teach better than the same workshop without it?

Answered

Students who saw the film gained more knowledge and reported more engagement on average, but the groups weren’t matched, so I can’t credit the film alone.

See what I foundSee every question in the Lab

Everything else I’ve made

Built or researched Films and art Programs and civic workSee them all as a list

If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber’d here
While these visions did appear.

Puck, A Midsummer Night’s Dream