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Corey Tutt
OAM
Corey Tutt
Tutt in 2019
Born
New South Wales, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Occupations
  • Research assistant
  • Director & CEO, DeadlyScience
Known forDeadlyScience founder
2020 NSW Young Australian of the Year
Websitedeadlyscience.org.au

Corey Aden Tutt OAM is an Aboriginal Australian social entrepreneur and the founder of DeadlyScience, an initiative that provides STEM Resources to remote schools throughout Australia. In 2020 he was named the NSW Young Australian of the Year.

Early life and family

Tutt grew up in the Illawarra, New South Wales, and is of Kamilaroi heritage.[1][2] He attended Dapto High School,[3] where his favourite subjects were science, agriculture, and history.[4]

In 2011, Tutt "tragically lost a friend to suicide",[5] which led to him becoming a travelling alpaca shearer throughout Australia and New Zealand, before eventually "finding the love of science again".[5]

In 2022 Tutt married his long-term partner.[citation needed]

Tutt is currently Rugby Union player for the Port Macquarie Pirates[6]

Career

Tutt began his career as a zookeeper on the NSW South Coast,[7] then spent time as an alpaca shearer travelling throughout Australia and New Zealand.[5]

In 2018, Tutt founded DeadlyScience to "provide science books and early reading material to remote schools in Australia".[8]

In 2019, he started working as a research assistant at the University of Sydney's Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use.[9][10]

As of 2023, Tutt has authored nine books in the DeadlyScience series published by Australian Geographic[11] and has shipped "over 25,000 books, 700 telescopes, 10,000 Lego kits and other STEM resources [to] over 180 communities" through the DeadlyScience initiative.[8]

Tutt has authored the award winning best seller the First Scientists which won the ABIA book of the year on 2022. Tutt has won various awards for First scientists and was also nominated for the NSW Premiers literacy prize for First Nations writer of the year and children’s book of the year.

In 2023 June Tutt plans to realise this book thinks ya Deadly a celebration of Blak excellence with 70 Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people’s profiled in the book.

In 2022 Tutt worked with Mclaren formula one team and smart sheet where the logo of Tutt’s Charity DeadlyScience featured on the slide of both Mclaren formula one cars for the GP in Melbourne.

In 2023 Tutt got 7 Yorta Yorta students from Sheperton in Victoria to meet 7 time world champion Lewis Hamilton

DeadlyScience

He founded DeadlyScience while working at the university. Originally working two jobs to fund DeadlyScience, he set up a gofundme page that attracted over A$240,000 in donations,[12] after realising that there was a school in remote Australia who had only fifteen books in their library.[13] Starting off by sending his own books and other resources, including telescopes to remote schools, Tutt started coordinating donated resources, including books from high-profile scientists such as Brian Cox and Karl Kruszelnicki. By 2020 he had delivered 7,000 books and 200 telescopes to over 100 schools and foundations. He wants to encourage Indigenous students in remote communities to pursue a career in STEM.[14]

He particularly wants to ensure that every remote Australian school has resources that tell the true history of Australia's first scientists, such as Bruce Pascoe's book, Dark Emu.[15]

From 2019, Tutt founded a series of Deadly Junior Scientist Awards, aimed at inspiring Indigenous students to engage with STEM and to examine local wildlife and land in a scientific way.[16][15]

In 2020, DeadlyScience began assisting with rebuilding schools affected by devastating bush fires which ravaged most of the South Coast of New South Wales. They did this by providing books and resources to schools that have been destroyed by fire. DeadlyScience also successfully raised A$7,000 for Broome Primary School in Western Australia that was burnt down by an arson attack. Tutt said on the ABC Nightlife program "Schools are the heartbeat of our community and for our community in Broome we stand with you during this dark time".[citation needed]

In 2020 he was awarded NSW Young Australian of the Year.[15][17][9]

In 2021 Tutt led a project to provide food and educational supplies to Aboriginal families in NSW struggling with COVID-19.[citation needed] During the floods on the Mid-north coast of NSW in 2021, when Telegraph Point Public School was destroyed by flooding, Tutt donated books to replace the books lost by the school.[18]

During the 2021 COVID-19 outbreak in NSW, Tutt led a social media campaign to support kids and families doing it tough in lockdown, and sent books to families.[citation needed]

Tutt appeared on Wil Anderson's podcast Wilosphy, in which he spoke about overcoming trauma as a child to create DeadlyScience.[19]

By October 2021, DeadlyScience had distributed more than 25,000 books and other STEM resources to over 110 communities around the country.[20]

In 2022 DeadlyScience featured on both Mclaren formula one racing teams cars for the Melbourne GP. Software company smart sheet donated their sponsorship to DeadlyScience.

In 2022 DeadlyScience donated Lego to over 200 schools across Australia.

In 2022 Tutt organised a bus for Cabbage Tree Island Community school after the devastating floods that destroyed their school. Tutt also gave every child, from three schools devastated by the floods, a brand new book so they would not lose their passions for STEM.

Other roles

Tutt is also a member of the equity and diversity committee at Science & Technology Australia.[3]

Recognition and awards

References

  1. ^ Snowden, Angelica (16 January 2020). "How toilets in space hit a chord for Corey". The Australian. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
  2. ^ "One person's passion for learning is supporting countless others in remote parts of Australia". education.abc.net.au. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  3. ^ a b Crabb, Brendan (5 November 2019). "Former Dapto High student wins NSW Young Australian of the Year award". Illawarra Mercury. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Deadly Science founder". Careers with STEM. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  5. ^ a b c "The Year That Made Me: Corey Tutt 2011" (Audio). ABC Radio National. 15 March 2020. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
  6. ^ "'Shattered': Aboriginal rugby player allegedly racially abused by spectator". NITV. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  7. ^ "Corey Tutt - The Power of Deadly Science". Australian Geographic. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  8. ^ a b "About Us". DeadlyScience. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  9. ^ a b "Revealed: the Australians who inspired you". The Australian. 21 January 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
  10. ^ "Meet the man on a mission to bring science to Indigenous students". The University of Sydney. 15 May 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
  11. ^ "Deadly Science Series". Australian Geographic. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
  12. ^ "Corey Tutt named NSW Young Australian of the Year". The University of Sydney. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  13. ^ "Meet the man building libraries in remote communities - by post". The Feed. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  14. ^ a b "The young Trailblazers making waves in regional Australia". Heywire. 6 February 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
  15. ^ a b c d "Australian of the Year Awards". Australian of the Year. Archived from the original on 21 March 2020. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  16. ^ a b "2019 Indigenous STEM Awards winners". 7 February 2020. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
  17. ^ "'Deadly Science' founder named NSW Young Australian of the Year". NITV. 5 November 2019. Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  18. ^ "Tutt inspires future change-makers with Deadly Science". 10 May 2021.
  19. ^ "WILOSOPHY with Wil Anderson: WILOSOPHY with Corey Tutt on Apple Podcasts".
  20. ^ a b "Australian Museum Eureka Prize: Corey Tutt and Team DeadlyScience STEM Inclusion winners for 2021" (Audio + text). ABC Radio. Mornings with Adam Shirley. 8 October 2021. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
  21. ^ Johnston, Rae (6 February 2020). "Awards shine a spotlight on Indigenous STEM superstars". NITV. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
  22. ^ "2019 Indigenous STEM Awards finalists".
  23. ^ a b Rubbo, Luisa (13 June 2022). "Deadly Science founder Corey Tutt receives Queen's Birthday Honour for service to Indigenous STEM". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 14 June 2022.
  24. ^ "Celebrating the 2020 Human Rights Heroes". Australian Human Rights Commission. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
  25. ^ "Human Rights Heroes Campaign Finalists". Australian Human Rights Commission. 7 December 2020. Retrieved 28 November 2021.
  26. ^ Smith, Kate (2 September 2021). "2021 Australian Museum Eureka Prizes finalists". The Australian Museum. Archived from the original on 1 September 2021. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
  27. ^ "Mr Corey Tutt". It's an Honour. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
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