Reported by Joshua Trost
On March 22nd, 2019, students from the San Diego Branch of AYLUS organized and participated in the 67th 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 1 full pallet of technology items:
170 – VGA
45 – Keyboards
45 – Mice
125 – DVI
23 – Power Cords
40 – Removed Hard Drives removed from computers.
301 – Hard Drives removed from caddies
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 1,342 hard drive caddies from computers
- Diagnosed, tested, wiped, counted, removed and cloned 4,924 hard drives
- Wrapped, folded, sorted, and packed 13,536 mice/keyboards/power cords/adapters/batteries/etc.
- Tested and Bagged 125 Speakers
The following members participated: Sherry Fu, Tianrui He, Chendga Li, Chengming Li, Sarah Li, Junqi Liang, Andrew Peng, Junhao Qu, Simon Shao, Eric Sheng, Ruinan Wang, Richard Wu, Hoaxi Xie, and Alice Zhu
The AYLUS San Diego Committee organized the 67th Computer for Kids Lab.
