Reported by Andrew Peng
On February 7th, 2020, students from the San Diego Branch of AYLUS organized and participated in the 107th 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:
85 – Yoga Power Adapters Cleaned
8 – Phones
45 – LCD Monitors
20 – Keyboards
4 – Printers
15- Laptops
5 – Desktop Computers
5 – Mini Desktops
58 – Power Adapters
15 – Hard Drives
19 – Mice
5 – RAM
19 – Power Cords
1 – APC
75 – Miscellaneous 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 5,278 notebooks/netbooks/laptops/tablets/desktops
- Cleaned out, or prepared 790 desktop computers for refurbishing
- Tested/repaired/mounted 743 LCD monitors
- Removed RAM from 876 computers
- Diagnosed, tested, wiped, counted, removed and cloned 8,788 hard drives
- Wrapped, folded, sorted, and packed 22,306 mice/keyboards/power cords/adapters/batteries/etc.
- Tested and Bagged 156 Speakers
- Removed 95 Optical Drives/CD Drives
- Removed 252 Motherboards/Processors
The following members participated in the 107th Computer for Kids Lab: Victor Ku, Weston Yang
Sarah Li, Jonathan Backues, Alex Liu, Arthur Xu, Eric Lin, Crystal Li, Jessy Zhang, Lejia Zhang, Nathan Wang, Edward Liu, Michael Wang, Kevin Wang, Emily Wang, Yufei Zhang, Meijia He, Conan Wu and Liana Xie
The AYLUS San Diego Committee organized the 107th Computer for Kids Lab.