Reported by Andrew Peng
On July 19th, 2019, students from the San Diego Branch of AYLUS organized and participated in the 81st 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:
37 – Hard Drives Removed from Computers
630 – Computers Checked for Hard Drives
Items Sorted
65 – VGA chords
14 – Power Adapters
184 – Power Cords
3 – Mice
34 – Memory
4 – Graphic Cards
1 – CD Drive
35 – Power Bricks
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, checked, and cloned 7,884 hard drives
- Wrapped, folded, sorted, and packed 18,693 mice/keyboards/power cords/adapters/batteries/etc.
- Tested and Bagged 128 Speakers
- Removed 22 Optical Drives
The following members participated in the first session: Derek Ma, Liana Xie, Colin Xie, Alex Hecker, Jinhan Zeng, Jonathan Backues, Alexander Backues, Lejia Zhang, Jessy Zhang, Natania Chen, Spencer Zhang, Jerry Wang, Yufei Zhang, Eric Li, Zhijian Xu, Ruikang Xu, Andrew Feng, Michael Ma, Max Weng and NingXin Sun.
The following members participated in the second session: Daniel Wang, Eric Lin, Derek Ma, Liana Xie, Colin Xie, Alex Hecker, Jinhan Zeng, Jonathan Backues, Alexander Backues, Leja Zheng, Jessy Zhang, Natania Chen, Andrew Lin, Claire Jiang, Max Weng, Eric Li, Jason Wang, Andrew Peng, Conan Wu, Kaden Wu, Michael Ma, NingXin Sun, and Meijia He.
The AYLUS San Diego Committee organized the 81st Computer for Kids Lab.
