Reported by Andrew Peng
On February 14th, 2020, students from the San Diego Branch of AYLUS organized and participated in the 108th 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:
Adapter Sorting:
140 – Generic
6 – Lenovo 65W
3 – Lenovo 45W
18 – HP 150W:
4 – Lenovo 170W
6 – Dell 45W
80 – Dell 65W
12 – HP 45W
7 – Lenovo 90W
20 – HP 90W
2 – Dell 170W
45 – Dell 90W
84 – HP 65W
98 – Dell 130W
2 – Lenovo 130W
10 – HP 120W
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 22,843 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 108th Computer for Kids Lab: Victor Ku, Weston Yang, Andrew Chang, Nathan Yang, Eric lin, Jessy Zhang, Lejia Zhang, Liana Xie, Jonathan Backues, Eric Li, Sarah Li, Claire Jiang, Anthony Jiang, Edward Liu, Kevin Wang, Michael Wang, Yufei Zhang, and Conan Wu
The AYLUS San Diego Committee organized the 108th Computer for Kids Lab.