Reported by Samuel Li
On October 18th, 2019, students from the San Diego Branch of AYLUS organized and participated in the 94th 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:
16 – Laptop Hard Drives Removed
34 – Desktop Hard Drives Removed
Items Sorted from Three Pallets:
50 – Power Adaptors
54 – Power Supplies
79 – VGA Cords
342 – Power Cords
25 – Phones
9 – Printers
80 – Headphones
39 – Keyboards
7 – Mice
1 – Projector
2 – Monitors
60 – Mini Wi-Fi
30 – Portable Wi-Fi Devices
22 – Optical Drives
2 – Mother Boards
12 – Surge Protectors
22 – RAM Sticks
1 – Gaylord Mics. Cables and Cords
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 4,772 notebooks/netbooks/laptops/tablets/desktops
- Cleaned out, or prepared 683 desktop computers for refurbishing
- Tested/repaired/mounted 575 LCD monitors
- Removed RAM from 784 computers
- Diagnosed, tested, wiped, counted, removed and cloned 8,272 hard drives
- Wrapped, folded, sorted, and packed 21,087 mice/keyboards/power cords/adapters/batteries/etc.
- Tested and Bagged 148 Speakers
- Removed 29 Optical Drives/CD Drives
- Removed 119 Motherboards/Processors
The following members participated in the 94th Computer for Kids Lab: Ruiqi Ding, Jessy Zhang, Lejia Zhang, Junqi Liang, Junhao Qu, Yilang Shao, Richard Wu, Conan Wu, Yufei Zhang, Meijia He, Liana Xie, Gus Lundquist, Jonathan Backues, Michael Wang, Emily Wang, Kevin Wang, Max Weng and Alex Liu
The AYLUS San Diego Committee organized the 94th Computer for Kids Lab.
