Forget about the crowds, and enter the http://www.ScoutingNews.org Black Friday contest!

There are three great prizes being given away:

• One lucky entrant will win a copy of Beginning Boy Scouts by Jeremy C. Reed and Heather R. Reed (Sep 1, 2011).
• One lucky entrant will win a copy of Down and Derby (2005)
• One lucky entrant will win a copy of The Jumbo Duct Tape Book by Jim Berb and Tim Nyberg (Sep 11, 2000)

All you have to do to enter the ScoutingNews.org Black Friday contest is to complete at least one of the entry methods below. You can complete additional tasks for additional entries. There will be three winners (one per item above) selected at random.  Good Luck!

Our End of the Summer Giveaway is over.  Thank you for all the entries!  We had 110 entries for three prizes.

The prizes were:

• One $15 Amazon.com Gift Card. This will be delivered as an electronic gift code.
• Boy Scouts of America’s Deck of Knots. (See product on Amazon)
• Coleman WideBeam 2AA Flashlight (See product on Amazon)

The winners are:

• Amazon Gift Card – Rosie (entry #54)
• BSA Deck of Knots – Doug (entry #16)
• Coleman Flashlight – Henry (entry #104)

All of the winners have been contacted via email. 

Scouting News Feedback:

A big thank you to everyone that entered.  We received some great feedback on what visitors wanted to see on Scouting News:

• More features on cub scouts!
• Arts & Crafts Resources
• Scouting tips and quick lessons. Something not everyone knows but should in order to be a better scouter.
• Annual updates and pictures on the Summit
• Information about Outstanding Pack/Troop Achievements
• More Girl Scout info. I have both Boy & Girl Scouts in my home!
• More info info on Patrol Z!   (All of the Patrol Z articles are featured on the Summit’s Blog)
• More information on recruiting from other Pack’s
• Less news release type articles 
• Any inside-the-organization efforts to purge our anti-gay bigotry
• I’d like to see what scout units aredoing aorund thecountry
• Randomly spotlighted troops doing good turns.
• Something to draw high school age kids to articles of interest to them
• Turn the question thing into an online forum that you can use for publication in the Scouting magazine.  (Scouting News is not associated with Scouting Magazine.)
• If I had one thought, it would be a place to collect cool scout links of the day – DIGG like.
• How to make scouting a great opportunity for kids with hearing or seeing disabilities and how to keep parents with similar disabilities in the loop.
• More contests and giveaways.  (We will try!)
• What you have is good
• Brief biographies of famous people that were Scouts
• Maybe info about what people have done that goes above and beyond for scouting. We have someone like that in MN that I am happy to know.

Thanks for the great feedback and entries!

It’s been a while since we’ve given anything away here on Scouting News, so we figured we’d have an end of summer giveaway.  We are also trying out a new application to handle the contest.  Just follow the instructions below to enter by liking our facebook page, following us on twitter, answering a simple question, or tweeting about the contest.  Winners will be picked at random.

There are three prizes:

• One $15 Amazon.com Gift Card.  This will be delivered as an electronic gift code.
• Boy Scouts of America’s Deck of Knots.  (< View product on Amazon) 
• Coleman WideBeam 2AA Flashlight  (< View product on Amazon)

We are looking forward to holding more contests in the future.  If you or your company would like to sponsor a contest please email contactus@scoutingnews.org