Scouting began more than a century ago, sparked by one simple good turn. In 1909, an American businessman named William D. Boyce was lost on a street in London when a young Scout helped guide him and refused a tip, saying he was only doing his duty as a Scout.

Inspired by that moment, Boyce returned home and founded the Boy Scouts of America in 1910.

The Scouting movement itself was started earlier by Sir Robert Baden-Powell, a British Army general who wrote Scouting for Boys and held an experimental camp on Brownsea Island in 1907 — the event that would become the launch point of Scouting worldwide.