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135 33 rd ANNUAL REPORT 2020-21 LIGO – India Education and Public Outreach (LIEPO) Activities The LIEPO team was one of the ear l i es t to conceptua l i se and implement “GW@Home with LIGO – India” - an online live video lecture series of 32 talks after the lockdown began. The first series started from April 1, 2020, and was hosted on the - LIGO India Education and Public Outreach YouTube Channel. The second series “GW@Home-2 with LIGO-India” ran during July 1– August 28, 2020. The speakers were organised by Sanjit Mitra (IUCAA) and the activity was coordinated by Vaibhav Savant (IUCAA) with support from Samir Dhurde (IUCAA) for live streaming the talks. (For details, see Khagol, No. 124, Oct 2020) GW@Home with LIGO – India Online Live Video Lecture Series Virtual Tour of LIGO in Minecraft On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of GW150914, the first gravitational-wave detection by LIGO, LIEPO and ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) jointly conducted an exciting live virtual tour of LIGO inMinecraft - a sandbox video game about placing blocks, on September 15, 2020. The activitywas coordinated and conducted byVaibhav Savant andOzGrav colleagues. (For details, seeKhagol, No. 124, Oct 2020)