Bold Ideas Lab began in London. Working with young people across the UK, Europe, Asia and North America, we kept seeing the same thing: they arrive with bold ideas, and the ideas get waved off as too young, too rebellious, not ready yet. And again and again, their ideas surprised us. We started the lab to take those ideas seriously.
Why we're called Bold Ideas
It is in the name. Bold ideas: a young person who thinks for themselves and makes something of their own, instead of drifting with the crowd.
Then AI arrived in the classroom, and adults did it again. One side says keep it away from children; the other says give it to them everywhere. Both argue about young people without asking them, and both skip the question a child actually faces.
The argument misses the young person standing in the middle of it. A bold idea becomes real only when someone learns to think it through: to make choices, to defend them, to keep going when it gets hard. That thinking is what we teach. No tool hands it to a child.
Education cannot be flattened.
We know how to drive, to optimise, to plan our way toward a better life. We also know what no plan can reach: how to be with boredom, how to be with loneliness, and the fact that greatness and beauty are rarely planned. Education should happen between the two.
Who is behind this?
Bold Ideas Lab is two people. One of us comes from music and the humanities, the other from AI research. The lab sits where those two meet.
Guiru (Lynn) Lin
Co-Founder
Lynn taught music for eight years before she wrote a line of code. With no programming background, she built a project end to end in twelve days and won runner-up at a Notion hackathon.
It confirmed what she had half-known as a teacher: what truly drives a young person is a question that is genuinely their own, and the depth of thinking it takes to work it through.
- Co-Founder of Bold Ideas Lab; Founder of Echo Music and Art Education in London
- Cross-disciplinary background: music education at Kingston, digital humanities at Oxford, AI business at Copenhagen Business School
- Invited speaker at the Royal College of Music (RCM) and the Royal College of Art (RCA)
- Mentored students who won youth hackathon awards and were showcased on a global youth tech platform; two animation works selected for AI Youth Spring Festival
- Runner-up at a Notion hackathon and recipient of the Tech London Advocates Best Creative Award; has taken part in hackathons hosted by Gemini, Claude and Notion
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
Tools change. Creators remain.
For schools and researchers
If you are writing an AI policy, questioning one, or studying how children actually use these tools, we are glad to compare notes. We teach, we keep records of how learning happens, and we publish what we see.