Springfield Business Journal announced their 2012 Economic Impact award finalists and winners July 19. Senior Instructor Sherry Cook served as one of five community judges for the awards. Other judges included Greene County Commissioner Harold Bengsch, Sherry Coker, Director of Workforce Development at OTC, J. Howard Fisk, owner of Fisk Limousines, Inc. and Don Flatau, general manager of global operations and marketing, John Deere Reman.
The event also honored 15 businesses and organizations. Missouri State was one of the finalists in the Kings category for organizations with at least 30 years of history.