The "See You at the Pole" event started in 1990. It began early that year when a group of teenagers in Burleson, Texas, during a "Disciple Now" weekend, went to three schools to pray at the flagpoles. This inspired students across Texas to gather at their flagpoles to pray. The formal idea was shared with 20,000 students in June 1990, and on September 12, 1990, over 45,000 students in four states gathered at flagpoles to pray before school. Initially intended as a one-time event, it became annual, and by September 11, 1991, about a million students participated nationwide.