Reported by Samuel Li
On July 26th, 2019, students from the San Diego Branch of AYLUS organized and participated in the 82nd 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:
270 – Hard Drives Removed from Laptops
35 – Desktop Computers Blown Out
Disassembled Laptops & Desktop Computers – Removed:
25 – CD Drives
22 – Mother Boards
32 – RAM
30 – Heat Sink
24 – Processors
30 – Power Supply
2 – Hard Drive Caddies
Items Sorted
51 – VGA chords
39 – Power Adapters
101 – Power Cords
1 – Mice
44 – Docking Stations
4 – Video Cards
6 – Phone Adaptors
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 572 computers
- Diagnosed, tested, wiped, counted, removed and cloned 7,524 hard drives
- Wrapped, folded, sorted, and packed 18,933 mice/keyboards/power cords/adapters/batteries/etc.
- Tested and Bagged 128 Speakers
- Removed 22 Optical Drives
The following members participated in the first session: Liana Xie, Colin Xie, NingXin Sun, Lejia Zhang, Jessy Zhang, Yufei Zhang, Alex Hecker, Andrew Feng, Michael Ma, Spencer Zhang, Jerry Wang, Natania Chen, Phillip Zhang
The following members participated in the second session: Liana Xie, Colin Xie, NingXin Sun, Daniel Wang, Jason Wang, Claire Jiang, Lejia Zhang, Jessy Zhang, Raymond Li, Alex Hecker, Andrew Feng, Michael Ma, Meijia He, Brad Liu, Alex Liu, Natania Chen, Emily Wang, Kevin Wang, Michael Wang
The AYLUS San Diego Committee organized the 82nd Computer for Kids Lab.
