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Shaw, Timothy G. Harrison, Dudley E. Shallcross, Marcus I. Medley  \nAbstract: Many university departments provide public engagement activities, often referred to as‘outreach’ to school students, their teachers and other members of the public. It is less common for University Departments to run activities for their employees let alone the children of these employees. This paper looks at the value put on an engagement activity both by participating students and their parents who are employees of the host university. Analysis shows that the students welcome the opportunity to experience aspects of their parents’workplace and those parents are extremely supportive of such initiatives.  \nKey words: public engagement, inreach, chemistry, aspiration raising.  \n1. Introduction  \nThe School of Chemistry at Bristol University, UK hosts the UK’s Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) in practical Chemistry [1] . This project, called Bristol ChemLabS (Bristol Chemical Laboratory Sciences) has as one of its aims the promotion of Chemistry through a major outreach programme with 27,000 -30,000 per year currently being engaged [2-6] . The aims of the outreach provided are to enthuse, excite, entertain, engage and educate participants. Where outreach activities are aimed at members of the host institution such as undergraduates, employees or their children the term‘inreach’ has been applied.  \nThe engagement undertaken here was a one day workshop comprising a 2.5 hour practical in the Chemistry undergraduate teaching laboratories, a tour of the department, a short lecture by a young Postdoctoral Research Assistant and finishing with a lecture demonstration.  \n2. Details of the engagement  \nForty two students aged 14 to 16 attended the event. Groups of 10-12 students each had a postgraduate Chemist as a demonstrator. It is not often that school students have the opportunity to work with young professional scientists at such close quarters. In the UK, adults who work with students under 16 years of age (including all postgraduates and technicians) have to have a Criminal Records Bureau (CRB)‘police check’. Bristol postgraduate chemists involved in all outreach are CRB checked and are initially trained through a scheme (until 2009 was called the Science and Engineering Ambassadors (SEAs) Programme) now called the STEM1 Ambassadors scheme [7] . Further informal training is provided by the Bristol ChemLabS School Teacher Fellow [8] .  \nThe experiment chosen was the extraction of caffeine from tea leaves as this uses solvents and equipment not normally used by school students under 17 years of age. The equipment and techniques used included filtration by Buchner funnels, use of electric heating mantles rather than by Bunsen burners, separation funnels for solvent extraction and vacuum distillation apparatus. The products were analysed by melting point and infra red spectroscopy where the students were trained to use the latest apparatus including diamond infra red spectrometers. The beauty of the experiment, is that it involves a natural product from which a common compound is extracted; there is no complex chemical reaction to be understood in addition to learning new practical techniques.  \n1 STEM refers to the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.  \nReceived 26 October 2009, accepted 16 December 2009, published 31 December 2009  \nAfter a lunch break the students were given a short tour of the department which included the research laboratories, departmental library, diamond synthesis labs, NMR centre and mass spectrometry unit. The afternoon session contained talks including; a short talk on ‘The Chemistry of Toothpaste’ given by a young researcher (who is nearer the age of the students than majority of academics) and a lecture demonstration entitled ‘A Pollutant’s Tale’. 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