The National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip is on its way to schools around Australia during National Science Week 2025!

The National Quantum & Dark Matter Road Trip is a travelling science show, bringing all things quantum and dark matter to a town near you!  To coincide with National Science Week, a team of scientists and science communicators will travel around Australia, delivering engaging presentations, hands-on activities, pub quizzes and more!

The 2025 Road Trip starts on 4th of August in WA's Pilbara region, then heads southward through WA's remote Mid-West visiting towns and communities along the way and ending up in Perth on 8th August. That's only the first leg! The second leg takes in towns from Adelaide to Sydney, finishing 20th August.  

The nature of dark matter is one of the biggest mysteries of the Universe, and Australia is a key player in the quest to figure it out. Dark matter accounts for 84% of all the matter in the Universe, but we don’t yet know what it is. Quantum technologies are crucial in the hunt for dark matter, and they’re already used in smart phones and cars, medical imaging, manufacturing and navigation.  But today’s technologies capture only a small fraction of the potential of quantum physics.

With funding from National Science Week, ARC Centres of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems and Dark Matter Particle Physics, High School Students will have the opportunity to be informed and entertained in all matters dark and quantum!