Reported by Andrew Peng
On August 16th, 2019, students from the San Diego Branch of AYLUS organized and participated in the 85th 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:
189 – Hard Drives Removed from Desktop Computers
Items Sorted:
193 – RAM
6 – Power Adapters
80 – Power Cords
100 – Wires
39 – Motherboards
3 – Keyboards
7 – CD Drives
7 – Processors
1 – Speaker Sets
20 – Heat Sinks
12 – LCD Screens
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 538 LCD monitors
- Removed RAM from 765 computers
- Diagnosed, tested, wiped, counted, removed and cloned 7,903 hard drives
- Wrapped, folded, sorted, and packed 19,491 mice/keyboards/power cords/adapters/batteries/etc.
- Tested and Bagged 133 Speakers
- Removed 29 Optical Drives/CD Drives
- Removed 46 Motherboards/Processors
The following members participated in the first session: Chengda Li, Chengming Li, Lejia Zhang,
Jessy Zhang, NingXin Sun, Natania Chen, Liana Xie, Colin Xie, Weston Yang, Eric Li, Alex Liu, Jinghan Zeng, Yufei Zhang and Victor Ku
The following members participated in the second session: Michael Wang, Kevin Wang, Lejia Zhang, Jessy Zhang, NingXin Sun, Natania Chen, Jerry Wang, Arya Garduoni, Weston Yang, Eric Li, Chengda Li, Chengming Li, Liana Xie, Colin Xie, Jinghan Zeng, victor Ku and Ernest Lin
The AYLUS San Diego Committee organized the 85th Computer for Kids Lab.
