Reported by Jonathan Backues
On June 26th, 2020, students from the San Diego Branch of AYLUS organized and participated in the 113th 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:
140 – Office Headphones
45 – Wireless Phones
65 – USB Hubs
58 – Chargers
40 – KBM Switch
45 – Conference Phones
10 – Speakers
1 – Laptop Batteries
200 – Laptops Chargers
120 – Keyboards
100 – Mice
15 – Power Strips
25 – Server Parts
90 – Docking Stations
40 – Power 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 6,497 notebooks/netbooks/laptops/tablets/desktops
- Cleaned out, or prepared 790 desktop computers for refurbishing
- Tested/repaired/mounted 743 LCD monitors
- Removed RAM from 890 computers
- Diagnosed, tested, wiped, counted, removed and cloned 9,017 hard drives
- Wrapped, folded, sorted, and packed 23,693 mice/keyboards/power cords/adapters/batteries/etc.
- Tested and Bagged 166 Speakers
- Removed 104 Optical Drives/CD Drives
- Removed 275 Motherboards/Processors
The following members participated in the 113th Computer for Kids Lab: Nathan Yang, Alexander Hecker, Jiachen Sun, Eric Li, Weston Yang, Conan Wu, and Kaden Wu.
The AYLUS San Diego Committee organized the 113th Computer for Kids Lab.
