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Arts · Biography · Geography · History · Mathematics · Philosophy · Science · Society · Technology  Scouting is a worldwide youth movement comprised of many organizations. Its aim is to develop young people physically, spiritually and mentally so that youth may take a constructive place in society. This is achieved through non-formal education with emphasis on practical activities in the outdoors, the so called Scout method. The Scout Movement was founded in 1907 by Robert Baden-Powell, a retired Lieutenant General in the British Army. He was also at that time a good friend of William Alexander Smith, Founder of the Boys' Brigade. Currently Scouting and Guiding have over 38 million members in 217 countries and territories represented through several different Scouting associations at the international level.
Wood Badge is a Scouting leadership program and the related award for adult leaders in the programs of Scout associations around 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 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.  Mafeking Cadets, one of the many inspirations of the Scouting movement.
See also the Scouting to-do list as well as the rules and standards ...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 Ida Copeland served on the International Council of Girl Guides. 12th
World Organization of the Scout Movement: World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts:
Dr. László Nagy (born 1921) was the Chief Executive of the World Organization of the Scout Movement from 1968-1985. A Swiss citizen of Hungarian origin, Dr. Nagy is a sociologist, historian and Doctor of Political Science, a former journalist and the author of a number of books on politics. In 1966, Dr. Nagy undertook a two year critical study of the Scouting movement around the world, financed by the Ford Foundation. In 1968, WOSM invited him to put his recommendations into practice and appointed him to his WOSM post, for a three year term that eventually lasted 17 years. Nagy was awarded the Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting, in 1977.
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