Reported by Samuel Li
On August 30, 2019, students from the San Diego Branch of AYLUS organized and participated in the 87th 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:
9 – Trixbox Computers Disassembled
10 – Desktop Computers Disassembled
25 – Laptops Disassembled
24 – Power Supplies Removed
24 – Fan Assemblies Removed
24 – Heat Sinks Removed
50 – Wires Sorted
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 4,635 notebooks/netbooks/laptops/tablets/desktops
- Cleaned out, or prepared 132 desktop computers for refurbishing
- Tested/repaired/mounted 538 LCD monitors
- Removed RAM from 784 computers
- Diagnosed, tested, wiped, counted, removed and cloned 7,967 hard drives
- Wrapped, folded, sorted, and packed 19,554 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 87th Computer for Kids Lab: Jonathan Backues, Jessy Zhang, Lejia Zhang, Haobin Cao, Liana Xie, Colin Xie, Eric lin, Arya Garduoni, Michael Wang, Emily Wang, Kevin Wang, Yufei Zhang, Conan Wu, Eric Li, Andrew Chang, Andrew Lin, Natania Chen
The AYLUS San Diego Committee organized the 87th Computer for Kids Lab.
