'It's really a credit to all the people that have supported Deadly Science'
Deadly Science founder Corey Tutt has been awarded an OAM for service to Indigenous STEM education
"To me it's really a credit to all the people that have supported Deadly Science and supported my crazy idea of packing STEM resources up and sending them to remote communities," he said. "And it's a responsibility to use this moment to share and encourage people to nominate other young people that are working in our community that are doing incredible work – and elders as well.""Aboriginal people have been doing science for thousands and thousands of years – tens of thousands of years.
"I'm sure there' are some people that won't like the fact that I got an OAM and I've accepted it, but the reality is if I'm not showing young people they can do it and giving them the opportunities to try to do something really positive with their lives then it's wasted."He said besides the cultural and colonial considerations, he had felt "a bit of impostor syndrome".