Reported by Samuel Li
On September 6th, 2019, students from the San Diego Branch of AYLUS organized and participated in the 88th 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:
Sorted:
40 – Telephones
4 – Speakers
1 – Docking Station
1 – Radio
1 – Walkie Talkie
1 – Network Adaptor
2 – Cameras
12 – DVD
3 – DVD Drives
1 – Battery Backup
1 – Mouse
29 – Power Adaptors
7 – Ink Cartridges
1 – Intercom
32 – Routers
7 – PC’s
13 – Power Cords
15 – Servers
65 – Hard Drives
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 4,636 notebooks/netbooks/laptops/tablets/desktops
- Cleaned out, or prepared 132 desktop computers for refurbishing
- Tested/repaired/mounted 538 LCD monitors
- Removed RAM from 784 computers
- Diagnosed, tested, wiped, counted, removed and cloned 8,032 hard drives
- Wrapped, folded, sorted, and packed 19,597 mice/keyboards/power cords/adapters/batteries/etc.
- Tested and Bagged 137 Speakers
- Removed 29 Optical Drives/CD Drives
- Removed 71 Motherboards/Processors
The following members participated in the 88th Computer for Kids Lab: Meijia He, Chengda Li, Chengming Li, Sarah Li, Liana Xie, Colin Xie, Lejia Zhang, Jessy Zhang, Nathan Yang, Eric Li, Eric Lin, Anthony Yao, Michael Wang, Emily Wang, Kevin Wang, Yufei Zhang, Alex Liu, Jonathan Backues, Conan Wu, Natania Chen and Andrew Chang
The AYLUS San Diego Committee organized the 88th Computer for Kids Lab.
