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Pioneering is a common merit badge in many countries, and was required for the Eagle Scout rank in the 1920s and 1930s. The name comes from the 18th and 19th century military engineers who went ahead of an army to " pioneer " a route, which could involve building bridges and towers with rope and timber (for example the Royal Pioneer Corps ).
An Interest Project was an earned award for the Cadette and Senior levels of Girl Scouts of the USA. In the Fall of 2011, a new program was introduced and Interest Projects were retired. [1] A poster of Interest Projects found in many Girl Scout offices. They were earned through completing skill-building activities and certain requirements.
Girl Scouts has incorporated STEM-related programs and badges to encourage more interest in Scouts in STEM fields. [49] From 2005 to 2007, more than 8.6 million STEM-related badges were earned. [50] The first STEM-related Girl Scout badges, though, can be traced back to the 1913 Electrician and Flyer Badges. [51]
The Wood Badge is an award for Scout leader training, first awarded by The Boy Scouts Association in the United Kingdom in 1919 and subsequently adopted, with variations, by some other Scout organizations. Wood Badge courses teach Scout leadership skills and instil an ideological bond and commitment to the organizations.
Girl Guides (known as Girl Scouts in the United States and some other countries) is a worldwide movement, originally and largely still designed for girls and women only. The movement began in 1909, when girls requested to join the then-grassroots Boy Scout Movement .
The Ashley Book of Knots, first published in 1944, says: "A decorative Chinese Loop. This is commonly employed as a Lanyard Knot. It is handsome and secure." [3] In recent years, it has become popular with members of the Scout and Guide movements for tying their neckerchieves instead of using a woggle. [4] A winged cross knot.
The camp blanket [2] is a significant piece of memorabilia for many Scouts and Girl Guides around the world. Scouts and Guides sew badges onto the blanket to represent all their achievements and events competed in, and out, of Scouting. Camp blankets are often used to display and store badges "earned" in a younger section, e.g. a Guide will sew ...
Girl Guides in camp, 1930. Following the origin of the Boy Scouts in 1907 many girls took up Scouting. [23] In 1909, a number of Girl Scouts attended the Boy Scout Rally in Crystal Palace Park [24] The girls told Robert Baden Powell that they wanted 'to do the same thing as the boys'. [25] Guiding was introduced to respond to the demand. [21]