Reported by Andrew Peng
On March 15th, 2019, students from the San Diego Branch of AYLUS organized and participated in the 66th Computer for Kids Lab, repairing and cleaning electronic devices in order to prepare them to send to children of low-income families. This helps the kids achieve academic success through possible access to technology.
The participants did the following:
- Separated
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15 – VGA
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13 – Keyboards
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15 – Mice
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9 – Laptops
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18 –Desktops
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11 – Office phones
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10 – Monitors
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23 – Power Cords
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5 – Power Adapters
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- 612 – Removed Hard Drives removed from computers.
So far, the San Diego branch students have accomplished the following since the first Computer for Kids Lab of this year:
- Diagnosed, repaired, tested, or sleeved 4,496 notebooks/netbooks/laptops/tablets/desktops
- Cleaned out, or prepared 112 desktop computers for refurbishing
- Tested and repaired 340 LCD monitors
- Removed RAM from 360 computers
- Removed 1,001 hard drive caddies from computers
- Diagnosed, tested, wiped, counted, removed and cloned 4,924 hard drives
- Wrapped, folded, sorted, and packed 13,298 mice/keyboards/power cords/adapters/batteries/etc.
- Tested and Bagged 125 Speakers
The following members participated: Sherry Fu, Tiara He, William Lai, Chengda Li, Chengming Li, Sarah Li, Junqi Liang, Junhao Qu, Simon Shao, Ruinan Wang, and Richard Wu
The AYLUS San Diego Committee organized the 66th Computer for Kids Lab.
