The Ada Lovelace Policy Lab is a student-led policy lab that aims to inspire young people to envision the future. We do this by publishing policies by students in high school in our Policy Lab blog, and by recognising the most exceptional contributions each year with Prizes. 

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Ada Lovelace is not the place for piecemeal, incremental progress which follows traditional ideas. We want to change the paradigm! Ground-breaking ideas only emerge when established knowledge is no longer taken for granted. We provoke young people to critically examine what they have found convincing from everything they have been taught, then to come up with persuasive and out-of-the-box ideas that are entirely unique.

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We are named after Ada, the Countess of Lovelace, who was a nineteenth century writer, mathematician and visionary. Ada Lovelace believed in the integration of mathematics and poetry: 'poetical science'. She often used poetic language to describe mathematical insights, and metaphors to explain scientific theories. Writing the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine, she was the first person to realise that computers could do more than calculations, including generating graphics and composing music.