Reported by Yicheng Liu
On June14th, 2022, students from the San Diego Branch of AYLUS organized and participated in the Computer for Kids Lab volunteer event for 2.5 hours, 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:
60 – Monitors assembled with Stands
34 – Monitors Cleaned & Tested
So far, the San Diego branch students have accomplished the following since the first Computer for Kids Lab of 2020:
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 9,057 hard drives
Wrapped, folded, sorted, and packed 23,019 mice/keyboards/power cords/adapters/batteries/etc.
Tested and Bagged 156 Speakers
Removed 104 Optical Drives/CD Drives
Removed 275 Motherboards/Processors
The following members participated in the Computer for Kids Lab volunteer activity, 2.5 hours for following each person: Nathan Yang, Andrew Chen,Daniel Du,Jessie Sun,Andrew Lin, Katherine Backues