Reported by Eric Xu
On March 19th, 2019, students from the San Diego Branch of AYLUS organized and participated in the 68th 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 600 VGA Adapters
- 123 VGA to DVI Adapters
- 98 Power Cords
- Removed 36 Computer Hard Drives
- Removed 34 Laptop Hard Drives
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
- Diagnosed, tested, wiped, counted, removed and cloned 6,336 hard drives
- Wrapped, folded, sorted, and packed 14,527 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, Ernest Lin, Andrew Peng, Simon Shao, Eric Sheng, Junhao Que, Ruinan Wang, Richard Wu, Hanxi Xie, & Alice Zhu.
The AYLUS San Diego Committee organized the 68th Computer for Kids Lab.
