Reported by Andrew Peng
On June 21st, 2019, students from the San Diego Branch of AYLUS organized and participated in the 77th 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:
207 – Keyboards Cleaned
28 – Hard Drives removed from Computers
Sorted the following items for processing:
53 – VGA
34 – DVI
35 – Power Cords
14 – 170W Adapters
8 – 90W Adapters
7 – 65W Adapters
11 – Keyboards
24 – RAM
26 – Power Supplies
58 – Heat sinks
21 – CPU’s
32 – Motherboards
22 – DVD
7 – GPU
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 6,777 hard drives
- Wrapped, folded, sorted, and packed 16,671 mice/keyboards/power cords/adapters/batteries/etc.
- Tested and Bagged 128 Speakers
- Removed 22 Optical Drives
The following members participated in the first session: Jonathan Backues, Alex Hecker, Anthony Jiang, Claire Jiang, Chengda Li, Chengming Li, Eric Li, Raymond Li, Ernest Lin, Alex Liu, Brad Liu, Michael Ma, Eddie Qiao, Daniel Sun, Benjamin Xia, Liana Xie, Jinghan Zeng, and Spencer Zhang
The following members participated in the second session: Jonathan Backues, Meijia He, Alex Hecker, Anthony Jiang, Claire Jiang, Chengda Li, Chengming Li, Eric Li, Gus Lundquist, Alex Liu, Brad Liu, Derek Ma, Michael Ma, Eddie Qiao, Daniel Sun, Jerry Wang, Benjamin Xia, Liana Xie, and Jingchan Zeng
The AYLUS San Diego Committee organized the 77th Computer for Kids Lab.
