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...)
Wood Badge is a Scouting leadership programme and the related award for adult leaders in the programmes of Scout associations throughout the world. Wood Badge courses aim to make Scouters better leaders by teaching advanced leadership skills, and by creating a bond and commitment to the Scout movement. Courses generally have a combined classroom and practical outdoors-based phase followed by a Wood Badge ticket, also known as the project phase. By "working the ticket", participants put their newly gained experience into practice to attain ticket goals aiding the Scouting movement. The first Wood Badge training was organized by Francis "Skipper" Gidney and lectured at by Robert Baden-Powell and others at Gilwell Park (United Kingdom) in September 1919. Wood Badge training has since spread across the world with international variations.
On completion of the course, participants are awarded the Wood Badge beads to recognize significant achievement in leadership and direct service to young people. The pair of small wooden beads, one on each end of a leather thong (string), is worn around the neck as part of the Scout uniform. The beads are presented together with a taupe neckerchief bearing a tartan patch of the Maclaren clan, honoring William de Bois Maclaren, who donated the £7000 to purchase Gilwell Park in 1919 plus an additional £3000 for improvements to the house that was on the estate. The neckerchief with the braided leather woggle (neckerchief slide) denotes the membership of the 1st Gilwell Scout Group or Gilwell Troop 1. Recipients of the Wood Badge are known as Wood Badgers or Gilwellians. (Full article...)
1996 World Rover Moot
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.
British Guiana Scout leaders, April 1954
The first Scout encampment, Aug 1-9, 1907, Brownsea Island
Boy Scouts take to the streets in New York City, 1917
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.
Memorial stone on Brownsea Island commemorating the first Scout encampment, Aug 1-9, 1907, Brownsea Island
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.
Scouts in Virginia, USA having fun, like Scouts from all over the world do outdoors
The Tooth of Time, a landmark at Philmont Scout Ranch
Boy Scouts of America uniform circa 1917-1918
Lovely sunrise at Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico
First Gilwell Wood Badge in the Netherlands, July 1923
A happy Cub Scout holds a winning pine car
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.
The 8th Indonesian National Rover Moot - Prambanan Temple-Yogyakarta July 8-17 2003
Mafeking Cadets, one of the many inspirations of the Scouting Movement
Cub Scouts of Hong Kong at Scout Rally having fun, Nov 2005
Yang Huimin (simplified Chinese: 杨惠敏; traditional Chinese: 楊惠敏) was a Chinese Girl Guide during the battle of Shanghai.
Lady Olave Baden-Powell, wife of Lord Baden-Powell and founder of Girl Guides/Scouts
Portuguese Girl Scouts at the 21st World Scout Jamboree, Jul 28, 2007, England
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.
Girl Scouts in the Central African Republic
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.
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
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.
Polish Boy Scouts fighting in the Warsaw Uprising
Boy Scouts canoeing on the Blackwater River, Virginia
A Czech Scout camp at 19th World Scout Jamboree 1999
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- ...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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Ernest Thompson Seton (born Ernest Evan Thompson August 14, 1860 – October 23, 1946) was a Canadian-American author, wildlife artist, founder of the Woodcraft Indians in 1902 (renamed Woodcraft League of America), and one of the founding pioneers of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) in 1910.
Seton also influenced Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of the Scouting movement . His writings were published in the United Kingdom, Canada, the US, and the USSR; his notable books related to Scouting include The Birch Bark Roll and the Boy Scout Handbook. He is responsible for the appropriation and incorporation of what he believed to be American Indian elements into the traditions of the BSA. (Full article...)12th
- 1923 – Kandersteg International Scout Centre came into existence.
Baden-Powell (from Scout method)
MacLaren Tartan (from Wood Badge)
Wood Badge neckerchief, set of three beads (training staff), and woggle (from Wood Badge)
Singing Girl Guides in Germany, 2007 (from Girl Guides)
Four American Wood Badgers with insignia (from Wood Badge)
First Wood Badge training at Gilwell Park (from Wood Badge)
A Finnish Gilwell Woggle (from Wood Badge)
Princess Mary and Girl Guides, 1922 (from Girl Guides)
Australian Scouting stamp (from Scouting in popular culture)
A kudu horn (from Wood Badge)- Gilwell Leiderscursus, The Netherlands July 9–21, 1923 (from Wood Badge)
Santa and Scouts in Snow (1913), one of many Boys' Life covers (from Scouting in popular culture)
King Dinuzulu, wearing what is perhaps the necklace from which the original Wood Badge beads came (from Wood Badge)
British Scouts in Detroit, July 1942 (from Scout method)
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)
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)
Eerste Nederlandsche Meisjes Gezellen Vereeniging (First Dutch Girls Companions Society), 1911, first Dutch Girl Guides (from Girl Guides)
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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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