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Describe the World Jamboree in one sentence
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“That’s a really hard question!” says Welsh participant to the 23rd WSJ Tilly Livingston.
She’s not alone. Everyone we asked took a good few moments of hemming and hawing before finally attempting an answer.

August 1 is the anniversary of Baden-Powell’s famous Brownsea Island camp and is celebrated the world round as World Scout Scarf Day, a celebration of Scouting everywhere. To celebrate World Scout Scarf Day, we are starting a World Jamboree history series looking at how Scouting spread from the UK around the world and how Baden-Powell eventually brought it back from across the world to the first World Scout Jamboree.

With the close of the Olympics in PyeongChang today, we wanted to look at another important similarity between the games and the Jamboree. These events wouldn’t be the same without the constantly changing venue and the unique challenges and opportunities that the venue provides. James Williamson, the 2017 Order of the Arrow Summit Experience (OASE) director and long-time Summit staff member, talked with us to share some of what makes the Summit a special Jamboree venue.

Peanut butter and jelly, snow and snowmen, World Jamboree and friendships; some things are made for each other. As we looked at in our last post, the World Jamboree, like the Olympics, brings people together. As such, there is no place like the World Jamboree for making friends. What exactly does that mean?

The World Jamboree is often best described as the Scouting Olympics. As a quadrennial, international event, hosted by different member organizations around the world, attended by a select group of representatives from each member organization, it’s easy to see that the Olympics and World Scout Jamboree have a lot in common.

In 2001, the United Nations declared September 21 to be an International Day of Peace. To celebrate this year’s Peace Day, we’re looking at the Season of Service, a brand new World Scout Jamboree program.
Service has been an integral part of the Scouting program for each of the 110 years of Scouting history. With roughly 50 million scouts around the world, our potential to effect major positive change is huge.