Reported by Andrew Peng
On February 21st, 2020, students from the San Diego Branch of AYLUS organized and participated in the 109th 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:
793 – Yoga’s 11E
125 – Netbooks
101 – Chromebooks
125 – Hard Drives Removed
91 – Power Adaptors – Tablets
114 – Power Adaptors – Yoga’s
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 6,477 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 8,913 hard drives
- Wrapped, folded, sorted, and packed 22,511 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 109th Computer for Kids Lab: Victor Ku, Luke Qiao, Weston Yang, Edward Liu, Liana Xie, Jonathan Backues, Alvin Zheng, Yicheng Liu, Meijia He, Lejia Zhang, Jessy Zhang, Yufei Zhang, Crystal Li, Nathan Yang, Conan Wu, Sarah Li, Claire Jiang, Michael wang, and Colin Xie
The AYLUS San Diego Committee organized the 109th Computer for Kids Lab.