The Scouting[童子軍] Association[協(xié)會(huì)] is over 100 years old and is now a world-wide movement involving[使參與] more than 28 million members in 216 countries. It has had to change with the times， but the association has never lost sight of its aim to provide young people with opportunities for adventure and self-development.

The Scouting Association was founded by Robert Baden Powell，a lieutenant-general[中將] in the British Army， who organised the first Scout competition on Brownsea Island off the south coast of England in 1907. A year later， he set out[陳述] his vision of an outdoors programme for young people in a book called Scouting for Boys then， in 1912， he formed The Scout Association. Scouting remained a boys-only activity until 1972.

Today there are five sections within The Scouting Association， open to girls and boys：

童子軍擁有超過一百年歷史，現(xiàn)今有216個(gè)國(guó)家、超過2800萬人參加了這一全球性活動(dòng)。雖然它必須與時(shí)俱進(jìn)，但童子軍永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)失去自身的目標(biāo)：為青少年提供冒險(xiǎn)與自我發(fā)展的機(jī)會(huì)。

童子軍由英國(guó)陸軍中將羅伯特·貝登堡創(chuàng)立。1907年，羅伯特·貝登堡在英格蘭南海岸的白浪島組織了第一次童子軍競(jìng)賽。一年后，他在一本名為《童軍警探》的書中描繪了一個(gè)為年輕人設(shè)計(jì)的戶外項(xiàng)目的愿景。接著，1912年，他組建了童子軍。直到1972年，童子軍還是一個(gè)只有男孩才能參與的群體活動(dòng)。

今天的童子軍對(duì)男孩和女孩開放，由以下五個(gè)部分組成：