Reported by Samuel Li
On May 3rd, 2019, students from the San Diego Branch of AYLUS organized and participated in the 71st 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:
58 – Hard Drives Removed from Mini Computers
33 – LCD Monitors Tested & Cleaned
60 – Keyboards Cleaned
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 413 LCD monitors
- Removed RAM from 360 computers
- Diagnosed, tested, wiped, counted, removed and cloned 6,466 hard drives
- Wrapped, folded, sorted, and packed 15,300 mice/keyboards/power cords/adapters/batteries/etc.
- Tested and Bagged 128 Speakers
The following members participated: Chang Bian, Haobin Cao, Sarah Li, Peter Xu, Ruinan Wang, Simon Shao, Meijia He, Richard Wu, Junqi Liang, Junhao Qu, Chengming Li, and Chengda Li.
The AYLUS San Diego Committee organized the 71st Computer for Kids Lab.
In addition, the AYLUS San Diego Committee has also implemented new policies and regulations in order to decrease conflicts. From the computer lab on May 3rd, positive results can already be seen.
