Reported by William Sun
On June 7th, 2019, students from the San Diego Branch of AYLUS organized and participated in the 75th 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:
275 – Tech Parts Remove from Computers
15 – Gaming Machines Scrapped
40 – Monitors Tested, Cleaned
47 – 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 4,528 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: Junqi Liang, Junhao Qu, Yilang Shao, Alex Liu, Haobin Cao, Claire Jiang, Anthony Jiang, NingXin Sun, Lejia Zhang, Jessy Zhang, Ernest Lin, Richard Wu, Chengming Li, Chengda Li
The AYLUS San Diego Committee organized the 75th Computer for Kids Lab.