Reported by Samuel Li
On July 12th, 2019, students from the San Diego Branch of AYLUS organized and participated in the 80th 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:
440 – Hard drives removed from Computers
272 – Mice Cleaned
259 – Keyboards cleaned
52 – Dell Power Adapters sorted
120 – HP Power Adapters sorted
80 – Lenovo Power Adapters Sorted
32 – Misc Power Adapters Sorted
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/repaired/mounted 526 LCD monitors
- Removed RAM from 540 computers
- Diagnosed, tested, wiped, counted, removed and cloned 7,217 hard drives
- Wrapped, folded, sorted, and packed 18,353 mice/keyboards/power cords/adapters/batteries/etc.
- Tested and Bagged 128 Speakers
- Removed 22 Optical Drives
The following members participated in the first session: Raymond Li, Derek Ma, NingXin Sun, Alex Hecker, Eddie Qiao, Claire Jiang, Anthony Jiang, Yufei Zhang, Liana Xie, Colin Xie, Jinghan Zeng, Lejia Zhang, Jessy Zhang, Eric Li, Michael Ma, Aaron Fan, Andrew Chen, Tina Zhu, and Natania Chen
The following members participated in the second session: Raymond Li, Eric Lin, NingXin Sun, Alex Hecker, Eddie Qiao, Claire Jiang, Antony Jiang, Yufei Zhang, Liana Xie, Colin Xie, Jinghan Zeng, Eric Li, Derek Ma, Meijia He, Benjamin Xia, Michael Ma, Natania Chen, and Spencer Zhang
The AYLUS San Diego Committee organized the 80th Computer for Kids Lab.