Reported by Samuel Li
On November 1st, 2019, students from the San Diego Branch of AYLUS organized and participated in the 96th 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:
80 – Hard Drives Removed
Removed the following parts from the Computer Systems
3 – Screens
23 – Heatsinks
Items Sorted
21 – VGA
11 – Keyboards
46 – Power adapters
9 – Mice
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 792 computers
- Diagnosed, tested, wiped, counted, removed and cloned 8,352 hard drives
- Wrapped, folded, sorted, and packed 21,264 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 96th Computer for Kids Lab: Ruiqi Ding, Jonathan Backues, Michael Wang, Emily Wang, Kevin Wang, Junqi Liang, Junhao Qu, Yilang Shao, Richard Wu, Claire Jiang, Anthony Jiang, Eric Lin, Andrew Chen, Sarah Li, Lejia Zhang, Jessy Zhang, Conan Wu, Chengda Li, Chengming Li, Liana Xie, Gus Lundquist and Alex Liu
The AYLUS San Diego Committee organized the 96th Computer for Kids Lab.