Reported by Alan Zhu
On April 26th, 2019, students from the San Diego Branch of AYLUS organized and participated in the 70th 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:
- 40 – Monitor Stands
- 12 – VGA
- 26 – DVI
- 12 – Mice
- 32 – Keyboards
- 22 – Power Cords
- 29 – Docking Stations
- 13 – Power Adaptors
- 4 – Speakers
- 3 – Laptop Bags
- 17 – Hard Motherboards removed from Computers
- 3 – Disk Drives removed from Computers
- 9 – Fans removed from Laptops
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 4,517 notebooks/netbooks/laptops/tablets/desktops
- Cleaned out, or prepared 132 desktop computers for refurbishing
- Tested and repaired 380 LCD monitors
- Removed RAM from 360 computers
- Diagnosed, tested, wiped, counted, removed and cloned 6,408 hard drives
- Wrapped, folded, sorted, and packed 15,240 mice/keyboards/power cords/adapters/batteries/etc.
- Tested and Bagged 128 Speakers
The following members participated: Joshua Trost, Andrew Peng, Grace He, Jonathan Backues, Chengming Li, Chengda Li, Richard Wu, Annie Bian, Alexander Zhang, Tiara He, Ruinana Wang, Sherry Fu, Sarah Li, Simon Shao, Peter Xu, Alice Zhu, Hanxi Xie, Tianhua Li, Ricky Xu, Jason Xuy, Ernest Lin, Haobin Cao, and Mark Ma.
The AYLUS San Diego Committee organized the 70th Computer for Kids Lab.
