Reported by Samuel Li
On November 15th, 2019, students from the San Diego Branch of AYLUS organized and participated in the 98th 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 from four Gaylords:
43 – Keyboards
51 – Power Adapters
25 – Mice
1 – Docking Station
25 – Desktops
8 – Speakers
4 – VGA Cords
1 – Power strip
1 – Ink cartridge
1 – Video card
1 – DVD player
4 – Batteries
1 – USB Hub
13 – Double Monitors Stands
23 – Monitors
3 – CPU’s
7 – Heatsinks
4 – RAM
4 – APC
5 – Motherboards
3 – Servers
2 – Working Station
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 4,797 notebooks/netbooks/laptops/tablets/desktops
- Cleaned out, or prepared 788 desktop computers for refurbishing
- Tested/repaired/mounted 639 LCD monitors
- Removed RAM from 792 computers
- Diagnosed, tested, wiped, counted, removed and cloned 8,413 hard drives
- Wrapped, folded, sorted, and packed 21,392 mice/keyboards/power cords/adapters/batteries/etc.
- Tested and Bagged 156 Speakers
- Removed 29 Optical Drives/CD Drives
- Removed 124 Motherboards/Processors
The following members participated in the 98th Computer for Kids Lab: Jonathan Backues, Ruiqi Ding, Emily wang, Kevin Wang, Nathan Wang, William Lung, Jessy Zhang, Lejia Zhang, Weston Yang, Liana Xie, Eric Lin, Anthony Yao, Conan Wu, Andrew Chen, Gus Lundquist and Alex Liu
The AYLUS San Diego Committee organized the 98th Computer for Kids Lab.
