Reported by Samuel Li
On December 13th, 2019, students from the San Diego Branch of AYLUS organized and participated in the 101st 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 REMOVED & SORTED:
41 – Laptop Hard Drives Removed
Items Sorted from Pallets:
6 – Printers
4 – Keyboards
19 – Motherboards
23 – Monitors
1 – VGA Cord
10 – Power Adaptors
17 – CD Drives
4 – Batteries
7 – CPU Fans
4 – Nic Cards
40 – RAM
2 – Hard Drives
2 – Heat Sinks
3 – Processors
25 – Chargers
3 – Ethernet Cables
1 – Computer Ribbon
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 4,847 notebooks/netbooks/laptops/tablets/desktops
- Cleaned out, or prepared 788 desktop computers for refurbishing
- Tested/repaired/mounted 662 LCD monitors
- Removed RAM from 832 computers
- Diagnosed, tested, wiped, counted, removed and cloned 8,504 hard drives
- Wrapped, folded, sorted, and packed 21,828 mice/keyboards/power cords/adapters/batteries/etc.
- Tested and Bagged 156 Speakers
- Removed 32 Optical Drives/CD Drives
- Removed 154 Motherboards/Processors
The following members participated in the 101st Computer for Kids Lab: Nathan Wang, Weston Yang, Claire Jiang, Anthony Jiang, Ruiqi Ding, Jonathan Backues, Meijia He, Xiaoyang Luo, Eric lin, and Conan Wu
The AYLUS San Diego Committee organized the 101st Computer for Kids Lab.
