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Agency
ConfidenceSelf-knowledgeEmotional regulationInner driveActive choice
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Yet in long-term educational work, their creativity and ideas have surprised us again and again.
About
About Bold Ideas Lab
Where young creators begin.
After working with young people from Asia, the UK, Europe, and North America, we noticed that their voices and ideas are often overlooked under labels like "rebellious" or "immature."
Brand story
Why Bold Ideas Lab exists
Four beats, light to firm: where we began, what we saw, what we believe, what we are building.
Bold Ideas Lab began in London. After working with young people from Asia, the UK, Europe, and North America, we noticed that their voices and ideas are often overlooked under labels like "rebellious" or "immature."
In longer-term accompaniment, we care even more about whether their voices are heard — and taken seriously.
"Dare to think" is about one's own courage to think and create: a kind of agency that refuses passive absorption and simply going with the flow.
So Bold Ideas Lab is not simply a classroom. It is a space where we want to practise imagination, creativity, and possibility together with young people.
Philosophy
Holistic Education Framework
Six areas of growth work together — judgement, creativity, and expression included — so young people can keep growing with clarity.
In the AI age, education still begins with the person
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Thinking
AnalysisReasoningProblem solvingCritical thinkingLogic
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Creativity
ImaginationMakingExperimentationInterdisciplinary integrationOriginality
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Expression
CommunicationSpeakingInfluenceNarrativePublic expression
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Social
EmpathyCollaborationCross-cultural understandingLeadershipTeamwork
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Digital Literacy
AI toolsComputational thinkingTechnical practiceData understandingDigital creation
Our approach
Not tool-driven, but driven by a real question.
What truly drives a person to learn and create is never the tool itself, but a question that genuinely relates to them. The work is learning how to call on one's thinking, skills, and personal qualities to create a solution of one's own.
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Start from a question that genuinely relates to the student
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Call on thinking, skills, and personal qualities
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Create a solution of one's own
Founders
Our Founders
The people behind Bold Ideas Lab
Guiru (Lynn) Lin
Co-Founder
An educator with eight years of music education experience, Lynn entered the Gemini Hackathon with no programming background, then won runner-up at a Notion Hackathon. That process took 12 days.
That experience confirmed something for her: what truly drives a person to learn and create is never the tool itself, but a question that genuinely relates to them, and how they call on their thinking, skills, and personal qualities to create their own solution.
Bold Ideas Lab Co-Founder & Founder of Echo Music Education in London
Cross-disciplinary background: Kingston music education, Oxford digital humanities, Copenhagen Business School AI business
Participated in Gemini, Claude, Notion and other AI hackathons; runner-up at the Notion hackathon; Tech London Advocates Best Creative Award
Mentored students who won youth hackathon awards; two animation works selected for AI Youth Spring Festival
Invited speaker at the Royal College of Music (RCM) and Royal College of Art (RCA)
Jujie (Jacky) Yang
Co-Founder
With 6 years of experience in AI — from algorithm research to high-frequency creation and project building — I've come to believe that what truly matters is not how early someone learns a tool, but how early they start asking their own questions and turning ideas into real projects.
This is why I co-founded Bold Ideas Lab — not to teach AI as a tool, but to guide young creators through the full process of creating, thinking, expressing, and sharing their work.
Founder of CoAI & Co-Founder of Bold Ideas Lab
MSc in AI & Machine Learning, Imperial College London; BSc in Computer Science, Durham University
Experience across AI research, product development, and creative project building; actively uses AI in real-world workflows
Participated in multiple hackathons hosted by Google, Cursor, Notion and others; 2nd Place — UK AI Agent Hackathon 2026; 1st Place — Crypto Quant Hackathon (AlgoWars 2025)
Kaggle Competitions Expert (1 Silver, 1 Bronze): Google LLM Prompt Recovery — Silver Medal (Top 1%); LMSYS Chatbot Arena Human Preference — Bronze Medal
Focused on translating cutting-edge AI into project-based, real-world learning experiences for young creators
Why now
The AI age needs whole people.
As tools become more powerful, education needs to return to the person: whether a student can ask their own question, make an idea real, understand their choices, and express them to the world.
See how this philosophy becomes a programme.
Our programmes connect real questions, creative process, and public expression, helping students move from ideas to finished work.