It’s livestreamed, socially distanced, and COVID-compliant – and it might just be the coolest one yet.

National Science Week technically runs from 15–23 August, but as with past years, it’s spread throughout the rest of August as well. Turns out there’s too much science to fit in just one week.

We’re so excited to check out some of the amazing in-person events planned in WA, but we’re just as excited to tune into events we’d normally miss out on from over east.

We’ve curated a few events for you below, and we’ll be keeping an eye on the National Science Week site to bring you more as we head into science week. If you’re running an event and it’s not listed yet, head over to the site to register it – and if you’ve got something weird and wonderful that you think the Particle crowd should know about, let us know.

A couple of our WA-based space-y favourites have amazing-sounding events coming up. ICRAR’s mixing art with science, while OzGrav are mixing virtual reality and actual reality.

This year’s National Science Week theme for schools is Deep Blue, exploring innovation in the oceans. Inspiring WA have put together some awesome webinars and competitions to show off the amazing ocean science happening in WA – be sure to check them out.

Thanks to so many events taking the time to go online this year. We get to tune in to National Science Week events from around the country. We’ve picked a couple of our favourites, but there are hundreds more on the National Science Week website.

Ready to get making, trying, or buying? It’s not all about the streams – make sure you head outside and get hands on as well.

Are you getting enough sun? How about enough sleep? You could take a snooze in the backyard, or come and get clued in on the latest in health science. Or why not both?

Remember, we’ve got 15 limited edition Particle Keep Cups to give away – and three $100 gift cards too.

To be in the draw for either all you need to do is complete the 2020 Particle reader survey.

Click here to take the survey – it’ll take you about 10 minutes and help us make Particle even better.