Reported by Samuel Li
On August 9th, 2019, students from the San Diego Branch of AYLUS organized and participated in the 84th 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:
125 – Hard Drives Removed from Desktop Computers
Items Sorted:
53 – Power Adapters
25 – Power Cords
33 – VGA Cords
39 – Mice
73 – Keyboards
20 – Monitor Stands
5 – Printers
4 – Speaker Sets
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 4,553 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 7,714 hard drives
- Wrapped, folded, sorted, and packed 19,282 mice/keyboards/power cords/adapters/batteries/etc.
- Tested and Bagged 132 Speakers
- Removed 22 Optical Drives
The following members participated in the first session: Natania Chen, Lejia Zhang, Jessy Zhang, Liana Xie, Colin Xie, Spencer Zhang, Yufei Zhang, Benjamin Xia, Arya Gardouni, Ningxin Sun, Derek Ma
The following members participated in the second session: Lejia Zhang, Natania Chen, Jessy Zhang, Liana Xie, Colin Xie, Eric Li, Benjamin Xia, Eric Lin, Andrew Lin, Anthony Yao, Mike Wang, Gus Lundquist, Claire Jiang, Anthony Jiang, Michael Ma, Derek Ma, NingXin Sun
The AYLUS San Diego Committee organized the 84th Computer for Kids Lab.
