Reported by Brian Zhu
On April 19th, 2019, students from the San Diego Branch of AYLUS organized and participated in the 69th 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:
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62 – Hard Drives removed from Computers
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10 – Hard Drives removed from Laptops
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9 – Removed Mother Boards from Laptops
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127 – Sorted VGA
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22 – Sorted Power Cords
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290 – Sorted Printer Cables
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8 – Sorted Ethernet Cables
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120 – Sorted VGI Cables
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 4,505 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 6,408 hard drives
- Wrapped, folded, sorted, and packed 15,094 mice/keyboards/power cords/adapters/batteries/etc.
- Tested and Bagged 125 Speakers
The following members participated: Sherry Fu, Tiara He, Chengda Li, Chengming Li, Eric Li, Sarah Li, Ernest Lin, Junqi Liang, Andrew Peng, Junhao Qu, Simon Shao, Ruinan Wang, Richard Wu, Eric Xu, Peter Xu, Nathan Yang, Alexander Zhang, and Alice Zhu.
The AYLUS San Diego Committee organized the 69th Computer for Kids Lab.
