Girl Guide and Girl Scout

This is an article about the young person in the Scouting movement. For other meanings see Girl Guides.For girl Scouts in co-educational troops and boys-only troops see Boy Scout. A Girl Guide is a girl, usually ranging from 10 to 17 years of age, participating in the worldwide Scouting movement. This movement began in 1907, when Robert Baden-Powell held the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, South England. To advance his ideas, Baden-Powell wrote the book, Scouting for Boys, which targeted boy readership, and described the Scout method of using outdoor activities to develop character, citizenship, and personal fitness qualities among youth. The girls' movement began in 1909 at The Crystal Palace in London, England, where Baden-Powell encountered a number of Girl Scouts in Scouting uniform and saw the demand for a similar programme for young women and girls.
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