VIDEO: How KC-built Engenious Design is scaling with stealth to atmospheric heights
November 17, 2022 | Austin Barnes
Editor’s note: Engenious Design is a financial supporter of Startland News. This video feature was produced through a paid partnership.
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From life-saving medical devices to unexpected innovations taking orbit, Engenious Design — a white label manufacturing and design firm headquartered in Prairie Village — might be Kansas City’s best-kept success story, teased Chris Justice, principal and CEO.
“We helped design the battery system that powers the next-generation rocket for Blue Origin, so not exactly something you might think of happening in Kansas, but it was fun to be part of that,” said Justice, describing one of Engenious Design’s most eyebrow-raising efforts to build high technology systems for entrepreneurs, founders and research and development leaders.
Check out a video below to learn more about Engenious Design and the smart stealth tactics its using to advance society through STEM.
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WHAT WE DO
Engenious Design is a creative engineering firm that creates medical devices and high technology systems for our clients.
WHO WE ARE
We are designers, makers, engineers who create new things that make the world a better place. Our team includes Electrical, Embedded Software, Mechanical and Test Engineers, Industrial Designers, Project Managers, Product Managers and others.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
Our team is guided by these four cultural aspirations:
Relate: We invest in healthy relationships with our team, clients, suppliers, partners, and our community
Create: We create new products that improve lives
Produce: We work quickly to get what’s important done
Improve: We have healthy unrest with the status quo, and we take responsibility to make things better

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