Reported by Samuel Li
On October 4th, 2019, students from the San Diego Branch of AYLUS organized and participated in the 92nd 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:
3 – Printers
6 – Monitors
11 – Laptops
8 – Keyboards
11 – Desktops Computers
5 – DVD
1 – Sound Cards
3 – Power Cords
1 – Record Player
1 – Piano Keyboard
Sorted I-5 Desktop Computers by Generation and removed Hard Drives:
379 – 4th Generation
82 – 5th Generation
79 – 3rd Generation
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 4,756 notebooks/netbooks/laptops/tablets/desktops
- Cleaned out, or prepared 683 desktop computers for refurbishing
- Tested/repaired/mounted 573 LCD monitors
- Removed RAM from 784 computers
- Diagnosed, tested, wiped, counted, removed and cloned 8,238 hard drives
- Wrapped, folded, sorted, and packed 19,993 mice/keyboards/power cords/adapters/batteries/etc.
- Tested and Bagged 148 Speakers
- Removed 29 Optical Drives/CD Drives
- Removed 117 Motherboards/Processors
The following members participated in the 92nd Computer for Kids Lab: Jonathan Backues, Lejia Zhang, Jessy Zhang, Nathan Wang, Liana Xie, Yufei Zhang, Meijia He, Sarah Li, Gus Lundquist, Michael Wang, Emily Wang, Mike Wang, Eric lin, Conan Wu, Max Weng, Alex Liu and Andrew Chang
The AYLUS San Diego Committee organized the 92nd Computer for Kids Lab.