Image taken at Guthrie, Oklahoma, USA - Wednesday, 1 August 2007
The dawn of a new century for Scouting around the world.

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On 1 August 1907, Scouting’s Founder Robert Baden-Powell blew his kudu horn on Brownsea Island at 08:00 to open the world’s first Scout camp. Soon thereafter, Scouting began to quickly spread around the world and now exists in 216 countries and territories involving 28 million youth.

2007 is the dawn of a new century of Scouting. We will celebrate the past, present and future of Scouting here in Oklahoma during our centennial year.

100 years to the day, on 1 August 2007, we marked the Centenary with an event celebrated worldwide titled "Scouting's Sunrise".