Portal:Scouting
Portal:Scouting
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
- Confederation of European Scouts (Full article...)
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...)
Boy Scouts take to the streets in New York City, 1917
Yang Huimin (simplified Chinese: 杨惠敏; traditional Chinese: 楊惠敏) was a Chinese Girl Guide during the battle of Shanghai.
Polish Boy Scouts fighting in the Warsaw Uprising
The first Scout encampment, Aug 1-9, 1907, Brownsea Island
Scouting friends from around the world at the 21st World Scout Jamboree, Aug 01, 2007, England
Memorial stone on Brownsea Island commemorating the first Scout encampment, Aug 1-9, 1907, Brownsea Island
Frederick Russell Burnham one of biggest influences on the founding of Scouting.
A happy Cub Scout holds a winning pine car
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.
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.
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.
First Gilwell Wood Badge in the Netherlands, July 1923
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.
Scouts camping at the hallowed ground of Scouting, Gilwell Park, England in the summer of 2006
Lady Olave Baden-Powell, wife of Lord Baden-Powell and founder of Girl Guides/Scouts
The 8th Indonesian National Rover Moot - Prambanan Temple-Yogyakarta July 8-17 2003
Scouts in Virginia, USA having fun, like Scouts from all over the world do outdoors
Girl Scouts in the Central African Republic
British Guiana Scout leaders, April 1954
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.
1996 World Rover Moot
Boy Scouts of America uniform circa 1917-1918
Portuguese Girl Scouts at the 21st World Scout Jamboree, Jul 28, 2007, England
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.
Commemorative stone marking the site of the first Scout encampment at Brownsea Island, England, held Aug 1-9, 1907 by Robert Baden-Powell
Sculpture erected in 1982 to commemorate the 1979 Jamboree at Perry Lakes Western Australia and 75 years of Scouts.
Lovely sunrise at Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico
A Czech Scout camp at 19th World Scout Jamboree 1999
Boy Scouts canoeing on the Blackwater River, Virginia
The Tooth of Time, a landmark at Philmont Scout Ranch
Cub Scouts of Hong Kong at Scout Rally having fun, Nov 2005
Mafeking Cadets, one of the many inspirations of the Scouting Movement
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- ...That the 2007 Australian Jamboree is the first official Scouting event in the centenary year of Scouting?
- ...That because Scouting was so important to US President Gerald Ford, a Distinguished Eagle Scout, that his family asked for an honor guard of over 400 Eagle Scouts at this funeral?
- ...that on February 22, 2007, The Scout and Guide Spirit Flame was lit at Robert Baden-Powell's grave side in Kenya? It set off on a journey to reach Brownsea Island, UK on 2007-07-31, the eve of Scouting's Sunrise.
- ...that the World Crest, also known as the World Membership Badge is a badge or patch worn by Scouts and Scouters around the world to indicate their membership in the World Organization of the Scout Movement? Each national organization may determine where on their Scout uniform this emblem is worn.
- ...that Princess Ileana of Romania found the Romanian Guides Movement and when she married a Habsburg was refused permission to live in Romania? She later moved to Argentina and then the United States. Her ancestral castle was eventually returned to her son Dominic.
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...)12th
- 1923 – Kandersteg International Scout Centre came into existence.
Singing Girl Guides in Germany, 2007 (from Girl Guides)
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)
A kudu horn (from Wood Badge)
King Dinuzulu, wearing what is perhaps the necklace from which the original Wood Badge beads came (from Wood Badge)
Wood Badge neckerchief, set of three beads (training staff), and woggle (from Wood Badge)
Scouts doing a good deed (from Scout method)
Baden-Powell (from Scout method)
Eerste Nederlandsche Meisjes Gezellen Vereeniging (First Dutch Girls Companions Society), 1911, first Dutch Girl Guides (from Girl Guides)- Gilwell Leiderscursus, The Netherlands July 9–21, 1923 (from Wood Badge)
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)
Princess Mary and Girl Guides, 1922 (from Girl Guides)
MacLaren Tartan (from Wood Badge)
First Wood Badge training at Gilwell Park (from Wood Badge)
Four American Wood Badgers with insignia (from Wood Badge)
Santa and Scouts in Snow (1913), one of many Boys' Life covers (from Scouting in popular culture)
Australian Scouting stamp (from Scouting in popular culture)
British Scouts in Detroit, July 1942 (from Scout method)
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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
World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts:
- 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
- Merit badge (Boy Scouts of America)
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