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Scouting’s Sunrise |
Wednesday, 1 August 2007 - The Dawn of a new Century for Scouting around the World.
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.
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Scouting's Sunrise 2007 |
100th anniversary:
2007, the 100th anniversary of Scouting is an opportunity for us to demonstrate the unique value of Scouting to the world and to celebrate the achievements of 100 years of Scouting. However, the 100th anniversary must provide a platform for the development of Scouting and not only celebrate the past 100 years. 2007 is the dawn of a new century of Scouting. We should celebrate the future of Scouting and look to how we can improve it to meet the needs of even more young people, their families and communities and offer better and bigger Scouting worldwide. We must seize this moment and prepare well in advance to share our successes and achievements.
100 years to the day, on 1 August 2007, every Scout, from every WOSM country, will mark the Centenary and look to the past, present and, most importantly, the future of Scouting.
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World Centenary Activities
International Scout Events
Sunrise Network:
The Sunrise Ceremony will take place on August 1, 2007 at 8:00 AM local time in each country. Starting in the East and continuing towards the West as time progresses, several countries will organize a get-together and ceremonies in the morning. We are aiming at transmitting sound and images from the "sunrise zone" to GB100S at Brownsea Island and to GB100J at the 21st World Scout Jamboree site in Chelmsford, UK, using short-wave amateur radio and / or the Echolink system. As time evolves that day, Brownsea will have a growing overview of the Scouting Sunrise activities around the world, starting e.g. with Kiribati in the East and ending 24 hours later in Samoa in the West. The Sunrise Netwrok will be active from July 31st 19:00 GMT to 1 August 19:00 GMT, spanning the full 24 hrs from East to West. Of course each station will only be active for a short period unless local staff wants to participate for the full period.To illustrate the global dimension of Scouting and as a commemoration of previous World Jamborees, the idea is to "revive" the former World Jamboree sites by (re)placing an amateur radio station there for a short period and making contact with the 21st World Scout Jamboree in the United Kingdom. These contacts coincide with the Sunrise Ceremony.
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Sunrise Network
Link up with other Scouts
The Brownsea Island Sunrise Ceremony GB100S:
The Ceremony at Brownsea Island itself will be transmitted by GB100S at 07:00 GMT on August 1 into the Sunrise Network, to whoever is connected at the time. Of course, other Scout stations are most welcome to join in as well. We just thought it would be a nice start to have all former World Jamboree locations active, as a sort of backbone network for the event. On some locations, the station is set up at a site where there is a special Ceremony held for the local Scouts.
Brownsea Island:
Brownsea is an Island of history. This is where Scouting started, nearly one hundred years ago. In the first experimental Scout camp, Robert Baden-Powell mixed together boys from diverse backgrounds. During their eight days together, they learnt to survive in the wild, and how to live by a code of honor.
During the same period as the World Jamboree Amateur Radio Station GB100BI will be on the air from Brownsea Island.
A number of Scouts staying at the World Jamboree will be given an opportunity to visit this historical site where it all began.
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Brownsea Island
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