Reported by Samuel Li
On August 23rd, 2019, students from the San Diego Branch of AYLUS organized and participated in the 86th 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:
38 – Laptops and Desktop Computers Disassembled:
19 – Screens Removed from Laptops
25 – Motherboards Removed from Desktop Computers
25 – CD/DVD Players Removed
8 – CPU’s Removed
16 – Fan Assemblies Removed
10 – CPU Coolers Removed
56 – Hard Drives Removed from Desktop Computers
Items Sorted:
4 – Power Supplies
13 – Keyboards
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 4,591 notebooks/netbooks/laptops/tablets/desktops
- Cleaned out, or prepared 132 desktop computers for refurbishing
- Tested/repaired/mounted 538 LCD monitors
- Removed RAM from 765 computers
- Diagnosed, tested, wiped, counted, removed and cloned 7,967 hard drives
- Wrapped, folded, sorted, and packed 19,504 mice/keyboards/power cords/adapters/batteries/etc.
- Tested and Bagged 133 Speakers
- Removed 29 Optical Drives/CD Drives
- Removed 71 Motherboards/Processors
The following members participated in the first session: Lejia Zhang, Jessy Zhang, Liana Xie, Colin Xie, Weston Yang, Spencer Zhang, Raymond Li, Chengming Li, and Chengda Li
The following members participated in the second session: Lejia Zhang, Jessy Zhang, Liana Xie, Colin Xie, Arya Gardouni , Weston Yang, Raymond Li, Conan Wu, Michael Wang, Eric lin, Chengming Li, Chengda Li, And Spencer Zhang
The AYLUS San Diego Committee organized the 86th Computer for Kids Lab.
