Reported by Samuel Li
On June 14th, 2019, students from the San Diego Branch of AYLUS organized and participated in the 76th 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:
61 – Monitors Tested & Cleaned
45 – Computers & Laptops Disassembled:
22 – Optical Drives
30 – Motherboards
15 – Coolers
18 – CPU
8 – Hard drives
30 – Heatsink
42 – Power supply
45 – Ram
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 4,528 notebooks/netbooks/laptops/tablets/desktops
- Cleaned out, or prepared 132 desktop computers for refurbishing
- Tested and repaired 474 LCD monitors
- Removed RAM from 540 computers
- Diagnosed, tested, wiped, counted, removed and cloned 6,749 hard drives
- Wrapped, folded, sorted, and packed 16,112 mice/keyboards/power cords/adapters/batteries/etc.
- Tested and Bagged 128 Speakers
- Removed 22 Optical Drives
The following members participated in the first session: Andrew Peng, Jonathan Backues, Liana Xie, Jinghan Zeng, Junqi Liang, Junhao Qu, Yilang Shao, Richard Wu, Leo Zhang, Jessy Zhang, Ernest Lin, Michael Ma, Eric Li
The following members participated in the Second session: Chengda Li, Chengming Li, Eric Lin, Jinghan Zeng, Liana Xie, Jonathan Backues, Eric Li, Michael Ma, Spencer Zhang, Zhijian Xu, Ruikang Xu, Tianhua Li, Agustus Lundquist, Jerry Wang, Michael Wang, Emily Wang, Kevin Wang, Leo Zhang, Jessy Zhang
The AYLUS San Diego Committee organized the 76th Computer for Kids Lab.