Reported by Samuel Li
On September 13th, 2019, students from the San Diego Branch of AYLUS organized and participated in the 89th 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:
Items Sorted:
4 – Telephones
1 – Cell Phones
6 – Docking Station
1 – Routers
4 – Scanners
5 – Switchers
1 – APC Battery
46 – Motherboards
6 – Power Supplies
87 – Power Adaptors
1 – Taser
16 – Head Phones
10 – Wires
15 – Personal Call Recorders
60 – Mice
7 – Keyboards
79 – Servers
8 – Hard Drives
1 – Desktop Computer
7 – Printers
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 4,637 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 8,040 hard drives
- Wrapped, folded, sorted, and packed 19,670 mice/keyboards/power cords/adapters/batteries/etc.
- Tested and Bagged 137 Speakers
- Removed 29 Optical Drives/CD Drives
- Removed 117 Motherboards/Processors
The following members participated in the 89th Computer for Kids Lab: Junqi Liang, Junhao Qu, Jessy Zhang, Lejia Zhang, Richard Wu, Yilang Shao, Edward Liu, Max Weng, Michael Wang, Emily Wang, Kevin Wang, Chengming Li, Gus Lundquist, Eric lin, Yufei Zhang, Jonathan Backues and Alex Liu
The AYLUS San Diego Committee organized the 89th Computer for Kids Lab.