Corey Tutt facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Corey Tutt
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Tutt in 2019
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New South Wales, Australia
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| Known for | DeadlyScience founder 2020 NSW Young Australian of the Year |
Corey Aden Tutt OAM is an amazing Aboriginal Australian who works in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). He's also an author and a social entrepreneur. This means he starts projects to help people and solve problems. Corey is famous for starting DeadlyScience. This group sends STEM books and resources to schools in faraway parts of Australia. In 2020, he was named the NSW Young Australian of the Year!
Who is Corey Tutt?
Corey Tutt grew up in the Illawarra region of New South Wales. He is from the Kamilaroi people. When he was at Dapto High School, he really loved science, farming (agriculture), and history.
Corey's Early Jobs
Corey started his career as a zookeeper on the NSW South Coast. After that, he worked as an alpaca shearer, traveling all over Australia and New Zealand.
Starting DeadlyScience
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In 2018, Corey started DeadlyScience. His goal was to "provide science books and early reading material to remote schools in Australia." He wanted to make sure kids in remote areas had the same chances to learn about science as kids in cities.
Working at the University
In 2019, Corey also began working as a research assistant at the University of Sydney. He worked at the Matilda Centre, which studies mental health.
Becoming an Author
Corey is also a successful author!
- In 2022, he wrote an award-winning book called The First Scientists: Deadly Inventions and Innovations from Australia's First Peoples. This book shares amazing scientific discoveries made by Australia's First Peoples. An artist named Blak Douglas drew the pictures for it.
- In 2023, Corey released another book, This Book Thinks Ya Deadly. It tells the stories of 80 incredible Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are doing great things in sports, art, science, and more.
Meeting a Racing Legend
Corey even helped seven students from Shepparton, Victoria, meet the famous Formula One race car driver Lewis Hamilton in 2023!
What is DeadlyScience?
Corey started DeadlyScience while he was working at Sydney University. At first, he worked two jobs to pay for DeadlyScience himself. But then he learned about a school in a remote part of Australia that only had fifteen books in its whole library! This made him want to do more.
How DeadlyScience Grew
Corey set up a GoFundMe page, and people donated over $240,000! He started by sending his own books and things like telescopes to remote schools. Soon, he was getting donations from famous scientists like Brian Cox and Karl Kruszelnicki.
By 2020, DeadlyScience had sent 7,000 books and 200 telescopes to over 100 schools! Corey wants to encourage Indigenous students in remote communities to get excited about STEM careers.
Sharing Indigenous Science
Corey especially wants to make sure every remote Australian school has books that teach the true history of Australia's first scientists. For example, he supports books like Bruce Pascoe's Dark Emu.
Deadly Junior Scientist Awards
Since 2019, Corey has also created the Deadly Junior Scientist Awards. These awards encourage Indigenous students to explore science and learn about local wildlife and land in a scientific way.
Helping Communities in Need
DeadlyScience also helps schools recover from disasters:
- In 2020, they helped schools affected by the terrible bushfires. They sent books and resources to schools that were destroyed.
- They also raised $7,000 for Broome Primary School in Western Australia after it was burned down. Corey said, "Schools are the heartbeat of our community."
- During floods in 2021, when Telegraph Point Public School was destroyed, Corey donated books to replace what was lost.
- During the COVID-19 outbreak in NSW in 2021, Corey led a social media campaign to support kids and families in lockdown. He sent books to families who were having a tough time.
DeadlyScience's Big Impact
By October 2021, DeadlyScience had given out more than 25,000 books and other STEM resources to over 110 communities across Australia!
In 2022, DeadlyScience even worked with the McLaren Formula One team and a software company called Smartsheet. The DeadlyScience logo was put on the side of both McLaren cars for the Grand Prix in Melbourne! That's super cool!
DeadlyScience also donated Lego to over 200 schools in Australia in 2022.
After devastating floods destroyed Cabbage Tree Island School in November 2022, Corey organized a bus for the students. He also gave every child from three flood-affected schools a brand new book. He wanted them to keep their passion for STEM alive.
Other Things Corey Does
Corey is a member of a committee at Science & Technology Australia. This group works to make science fair and open to everyone.
In 2021, Corey was also playing rugby union for the Port Macquarie Pirates team.
Awards and Recognition
Corey Tutt has received many awards for his amazing work:
- 2019: AMP Foundation Tomorrow Maker
- 2019: STEM Champion Award, Indigenous STEM Awards
- 2020: ABC Trailblazer Heywire
- 2020: Indigenous STEM Champion CSIRO
- 2020: NSW Young Australian of the Year
- 2020: One of ten Human Rights Heroes at the Human Rights Awards
- 2021: The Australian Museum's Eureka Prize for STEM Inclusion (with Team DeadlyScience)
- 2022: Finalist, NSW/ACT Indigenous Achievement Award
- 2022: Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM)
- 2022: The First Scientists: Deadly Inventions and Innovations from Australia's First Peoples, winner, Book of the Year for Younger Children at the Australian Book Industry Awards
- 2023: The First Scientists: Deadly Inventions and Innovations from Australia's First Peoples, winner, Children's Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Indigenous writers' prize, both at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards
