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November 2012, Chico, CA – At the Sierra Nevada Brewery Big Room November 1st, the innovators, executives, educators and community leaders who enrich the California 530 area code were celebrated. The lively evening was host to an audience that came to see the winners of 53 finalists in 15 categories.

Hosted and organized originally by CEPCO and since 2012 by Innovate North State, the North State Innovation Awards are an annual event since 1984 and have been expanded this year to include the entire 530 area code, encompassing most of California North of Sacramento. Prior award winners include market leading companies such as Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, and Build.com. Companies are honored because of their innovative products or services and their game changing impact, not only locally, but statewide, nationally and globally.

The 2012 California North State Innovation Awards before the ceremony.

Innovate North State’s Board Chairman Steve Gonsalves stated, “The event is truly emblematic of the region-wide innovation occurring in the California North State. We have finalists from 14 different communities, all who are making great things happen in the region and we were proud to honor them at the North State Innovation Awards event.

Awards were given in the following categories:  Game Changer of the Year; Entrepreneur of the Year; Executive of the Year; Outstanding Woman Innovator of the Year; Inventor of the Year; Innovation in Health Care; Education Innovator of the Year; Outstanding Technology Team; Green Innovation ; Outstanding Startup; Food & Agriculture; Manufacturing Innovation; Community Service Award; GLOBIE Awards; CSU Chico Collegiate Entrepreneurial Association Award.

ABOUT FlixChip Corp.

FlixChip Corp. was founded in late 2011 by Mr. John Strisower, CEO.  FlixChip Corp. has created the first global, solid-state, movie distribution media designed for consumers to effortlessly use on their desktop computer or favorite mobile devices; such as, tablets and smart phones.  This proprietary innovation is called muvichip™.  The muvichip™ provides a highly portable and collectible way of taking one’s movies with them and watching them on their small screen devices.  The muvichip™ can plug right into the consumer’s USB port on their PC or Mac and the computer’s video player will start playing the movie.

The really cool technology that allows movie viewing on the go on tablets or smart phones is FlixChip’s muvifi™, a local WiFi hotspot which streams the movie content to devices without USB ports but are WiFi enabled. The consumer doesn’t need to be tethered to the Internet to watch favorite movies while out with friends and family in the car, at the beach, camping, or any place where the consumer currently brings their tablet or smart phone.

Laura Page, Director of Contract Administration for FlixChip Corp. accepted the Award for Outstanding Start-Up Business. She noted how unique and special it was to work for a company where the product concept, design, development, production and distribution manifested in less than a year’s time. Accompanying her were two FlixChip Corp. colleagues; Hampton Maxwell, Research and Technical Analyst and David Kuehne, Creative Director.

About Innovate North State

Innovate North State (www.innovate-northstate.com) – a public/private partnership driven by CEOs of leading California North State businesses – was established in early 2012 to create jobs in the region by specifically focusing resources on helping innovative growth companies succeed. The Innovate North State concept was seeded by NoRTEC, its development aided by a State Innovation Challenge Grant. The organization also serves as one of twelve California-designated iHubs, and is the only iHub focused on rural regions of California.  Innovate North State’s region of scope encompasses Yuba-Sutter to the South, Grass Valley/Nevada City in the foothills, all the way to the Oregon border.

Innovate North State’s 5-Year Vision is to have the North State recognized as the most economically competitive rural region in the U.S. by 2017