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Scouting, also known as the Scout Movement, is a worldwide youth social movement employing the Scout method, a program of informal education with an emphasis on practical outdoor activities, including camping, woodcraft, aquatics, hiking, backpacking, and sports. Another widely recognized movement characteristic is the Scout uniform, by intent hiding all differences of social standing in a country and encouraging equality, with neckerchief and campaign hat or comparable headwear. Distinctive uniform insignia include the fleur-de-lis and the trefoil, as well as merit badges and other patches.
In 1907, Robert Baden-Powell, a lieutenant general in the British Army held a Scouting encampment on Brownsea Island in England. Baden-Powell wrote Scouting for Boys (London, 1908), partly based on his earlier military books. The Scout Movement of both Boy Scouts and Girl Guides (renamed to Girl Scouts in some countries) was well established in the first decade of the twentieth century. Later, programs for younger children, such as Wolf Cubs (1916), now Cubs, and for older adolescents, such as Rovers (1918), were adopted by some Scout organizations. In 1910, Baden-Powell formed the Girl Guides, for girls in the United Kingdom which spread internationally as Girl Guides and includes age programs of (Brownie Guide, Girl Guide and Girl Scout, Ranger Guide).
In 2007, Scouting and Guiding together had over 38 million members in 216 countries. International umbrella organizations include: World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM), for boys-only and co-educational organizations: World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS), primarily for girls-only organizations but also accepting co-educational organizations, World Federation of Independent Scouts, World Organization of Independent Scouts, Order of World Scouts, International Union of Guides and Scouts of Europe, and Confederation of European Scouts. (Full article...)
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The pinewood derby is the wood car racing event of the Cub Scout Program of the Boy Scouts of America. Pinewood derbies are often run by packs of the Cub Scouts program. With the help of adults, Cub Scouts build their own unpowered, unmanned miniature cars from wood, usually from kits containing a block of pine wood, plastic wheels, and metal axles. With the popularity of the pinewood derby, other organizations have developed similar events. Pinewood derby is a registered trademark of the BSA, so most use different names. Each derby has slightly different rules for making and racing their cars. A small industry has developed to provide organizer equipment (e.g. tracks, timers, and scales) and awards (e.g. trophies and ribbons).
Similar Cub Scouting events include the raingutter regatta (a race for miniature boats) and the space derby (a race for rubber band-driven propeller shuttles). (Full article...)Selected picture
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The Tooth of Time, a landmark at Philmont Scout Ranch -
Commemorative stone marking the site of the first Scout encampment at Brownsea Island, England, held Aug 1-9, 1907 by Robert Baden-Powell -
The first Scout encampment, Aug 1-9, 1907, Brownsea Island -
Lady Olave Baden-Powell, wife of Lord Baden-Powell and founder of Girl Guides/Scouts -
1996 World Rover Moot -
Boy Scouts of America uniform circa 1917-1918 -
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British Guiana Scout leaders, April 1954 -
Polish Boy Scouts fighting in the Warsaw Uprising -
Frederick Russell Burnham one of biggest influences on the founding of Scouting. -
Scouting friends from around the world at the 21st World Scout Jamboree, Aug 01, 2007, England -
Scouts camping at the hallowed ground of Scouting, Gilwell Park, England in the summer of 2006 -
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The 8th Indonesian National Rover Moot - Prambanan Temple-Yogyakarta July 8-17 2003 -
Mafeking Cadets, one of the many inspirations of the Scouting Movement -
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Cub Scouts of Hong Kong at Scout Rally having fun, Nov 2005 -
Lovely sunrise at Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico -
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A happy Cub Scout holds a winning pine car -
Rohwer Relocation Center, McGehee, Arkansas. A 5-day Boy Scout Camp on the bank of the Mississippi River was composed of nearly a hundred boys from the Rohwer Center, a few less form the Jerome Center, together with a small troop from the nearby town of Arkansas City. -
A Czech Scout camp at 19th World Scout Jamboree 1999 -
Memorial stone on Brownsea Island commemorating the first Scout encampment, Aug 1-9, 1907, Brownsea Island -
Sioux: Ohiyesa, (pronounced Oh hee' yay suh), February 19, 1858 - January 8, 1939) was a Native American author, physician and reformer. He was active in politics and helped found the Boy Scouts of America. -
Yang Huimin (simplified Chinese: 杨惠敏; traditional Chinese: 楊惠敏) was a Chinese Girl Guide during the battle of Shanghai. -
First Gilwell Wood Badge in the Netherlands, July 1923 -
Scouts in Virginia, USA having fun, like Scouts from all over the world do outdoors -
Preparing the pancakes before the arrival of the children for the evening dinner during the summer camp of the Dutch Student Rover crew Delftsche Zwervers for children in special education. Because pancakes are considered to be a feast meal for children, this is served on the last evening dinner of this camp. -
Portuguese Girl Scouts at the 21st World Scout Jamboree, Jul 28, 2007, England -
Girl Scouts in the Central African Republic -
American Boy Scouts at summer camp in 2002. In the front row, the first three boys have made Eagle Scout and the 4th is one requirement away. -
This postage stamp was issued in 1978 to celebrate 50 years of Girl Guiding in the Faroe Isles. This year will mark their 80th anniversary. -
Sculpture erected in 1982 to commemorate the 1979 Jamboree at Perry Lakes Western Australia and 75 years of Scouts. -
Boy Scouts canoeing on the Blackwater River, Virginia -
Boy Scouts take to the streets in New York City, 1917 -
Wood Badge beads and neckerchief. Wood Badge is the premier Boy Scout adult leader training course. A holder of the Wood Badge is a leader highly trained and dedicated Scout leader.
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Did you know
- ...that Dr. László Nagy was the Chief Executive of the World Organization of the Scout Movement from 1968-1985 and that he was a Swiss citizen of Hungarian origin?
- ...that Mury was a clandestine Girl Scouts group organized by young Polish women; political prisoners in the concentration camp in Ravensbrück?
- ...that the Mafeking Cadet Corps, volunteer boy cadets in the Siege of Mafeking, are sometimes seen as the forerunners of the Scouts, and were depicted on one of the only British stamps not to depict the monarch?
- ...that Yang Huimin was a Girl Guide during the battle of Shanghai who supplied a Republic of China flag and brought supplies to besieged defenders of the Sihang Warehouse? Her actions proved inspiring to the defenders, who flew the flag the next daybreak in front of thousands of watching eyes across the bank of the Suzhou Creek.
- ...that the history of Gilwell Park can be traced all the way back to 1407 and that there is a 1000+ year old Buddha there?
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Major Frederick Russell Burnham DSO (May 11, 1861 – September 1, 1947) was an American scout and world-traveling adventurer. He is known for his service to the British South Africa Company and to the British Army in colonial Africa, and for teaching woodcraft to Robert Baden-Powell in Rhodesia. Burnham helped inspire the founding of the international Scouting Movement.
Burnham was born on a Dakota Sioux Indian reservation in Minnesota, in the small village of Tivoli near the city of Mankato; there he learned the ways of American Indians as a boy. By the age of 14, he was supporting himself in California, while also learning scouting from some of the last of the cowboys and frontiersmen of the American Southwest. Burnham had little formal education, never finishing high school. After moving to the Arizona Territory in the early 1880s, he was drawn into the Pleasant Valley War, a feud between families of ranchers and sheepherders. He escaped and later worked as a civilian tracker for the United States Army in the Apache Wars. Feeling the need for new adventures, Burnham took his family to southern Africa in 1893, seeing Cecil Rhodes's Cape to Cairo Railway project as the next undeveloped frontier. (Full article...)Selected anniversaries - June
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- 1916 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
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- 1977 – Death of Olave Baden-Powell
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Singing Girl Guides in Germany, 2007 (from Girl Guides) -
Santa and Scouts in Snow (1913), one of many Boys' Life covers (from Scouting in popular culture) -
A Finnish Gilwell Woggle (from Wood Badge) -
Smokey Bear with members of the Boy Scouts of America and the Camp Fire Girls celebrating the 50th anniversary of their founding in 1910 (from Scouting in popular culture) -
Scouts doing a good deed (from Scout method) -
Four American Wood Badgers with insignia (from Wood Badge) -
Princess Mary and Girl Guides, 1922 (from Girl Guides) -
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Australian Scouting stamp (from Scouting in popular culture) -
King Dinuzulu, wearing what is perhaps the necklace from which the original Wood Badge beads came (from Wood Badge) -
Eerste Nederlandsche Meisjes Gezellen Vereeniging (First Dutch Girls Companions Society), 1911, first Dutch Girl Guides (from Girl Guides) -
Wood Badge neckerchief, set of three beads (training staff), and woggle (from Wood Badge) -
MacLaren Tartan (from Wood Badge) -
Gilwell Leiderscursus, The Netherlands July 9–21, 1923 (from Wood Badge)
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First Wood Badge training at Gilwell Park (from Wood Badge) -
A kudu horn (from Wood Badge) -
British Scouts in Detroit, July 1942 (from Scout method) -
The monument to the Battle of Isandlwana depicts a beaded Zulu necklace similar to the one used for the original Wood Badge beads (from Wood Badge) -
Baden-Powell (from Scout method)
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Scouting by region
World Organization of the Scout Movement:
- Africa Scout Region
- Arab Scout Region
- Asia-Pacific Scout Region
- Eurasian Scout Region
- European Scout Region
- Interamerican Scout Region
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Scouting lists
- Age groups in Scouting and Guiding
- List of highest awards in Scouting
- List of notable Eagle Scouts
- List of famous Scouts
- List of Order of the Arrow national events
- List of Scouting memorials
- List of Scouting museums
- List of World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts members
- List of World Organization of the Scout Movement members
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