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About

I'm Junuh Ridenour — a high school senior in Tulsa who builds things.
Some of those things are physical: drones, charging stations, custom electronics. Some are companies: I run Ridenour Media Firm, an LLC I founded in 2025 that handles event coverage and promotional video work. Some are ideas: I'll be giving a TEDx talk this fall on naive optimism — the underrated practice of starting something before stressing about whether or not it'll work.
The variety isn't a contradiction. I'm output-driven — I'd rather make a real thing, imperfect and in the world, than perfect an idea that never leaves my head. Most of what I've built started because I was curious and didn't yet know enough to be intimidated. That habit has turned out to be the most useful one I have.

Approach

I don't separate the engineer from the producer from the debater. Filmmaking taught me to communicate to non-technical audiences. Debate taught me to think under pressure. Engineering is where I put both to work — and where I'm headed.
These disciplines aren't separate, they're tools that sharpen each other. And I learn fastest when a project forces the gaps to show: building a drone teaches me aerodynamics faster than reading about aerodynamics ever could. The discomfort of crossing into something I'm not yet good at is the part I trust most.
I know my age sets me behind people with more formal training. But most of what any industry actually requires gets learned on the job, in real situations, with real problems, with real people. So I'd rather spend now sharpening the ability to learn and adapt — the skill underneath every other skill.

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Coursework

My formal coursework is a starting point, not a ceiling. Most of what I know about engineering came from building things and chasing the math I needed to build them better.Completed- Riverfield Country Day School — Class of 2027, most rigorous track, Raven Roll honoree all four years. Notable coursework: Calculus I, Chemistry I & II.- Tulsa Tech College — Geometry, 80-hr accelerated summer course (2024).In progress- Riverfield Calculus I — required senior-year math.- BYU Independent Study AP Calculus BC — taken concurrently with Riverfield's calc track to extend rigor; AP exam May 2027.- Coursera — Control of Mobile Robots (Georgia Tech) and Autonomous Aerospace Systems (Università di Napoli Federico II); both tied to Project WHISPR.Coming up- ENGR 1242 — Engineering Computer Programming (TCC dual credit, Summer 2026) to build C++ fluency beyond Arduino.- Skills I'm building toward: PCB design, control systems (PID, state-space), aerodynamics, embedded C/C++ fluency, CAD beyond Fusion basics.

Links

• LinkedIn
• Short film content

A custom quadcopter that fights its own noise. WHISPR pairs 3D-printed propeller shrouds — engineered as acoustic waveguides to channel noise downward in a predictable cone — with active noise cancellation driven by an ESP32 and pre-recorded inverted waveforms. The thesis: if you can constrain where the noise goes, you can cancel it more effectively.
Currently developing this in conversation with Dr. Sicheng Kevin Li at OSU's Rotorcraft Aeroacoustics Lab. Build phase: Summer 2026.

A weatherproof, solar-powered USB charging station designed for outdoor events and remote sites. Three-box modular assembly: a NEMA 4X steel junction box housing the power electronics, flanked by two custom-fabricated aluminum charging boxes with a 3D-printed angled phone caddy. Successfully network with the MTTA ( Metropolitan Tulsa Transit Authority). Upon finish construction, the Sol Station system will be attached to a city bus stop to provide charging infrastructure for the Tulsa population, with specific intent to help those without consistent access to electric electricity, in a manner that is both convenient and fiscally attractive.

A wekk-long internship at Fab Lab Tulsa supporting educational programming for the makerspace community. Learned processes with digital fabrication tools and produced a promotional video for the Lab's outreach programs. The combination of engineering and production was the first time I formalized something I'd been doing informally for years, building things based in personal passion and documenting the result.

BASECAMP TULSA · 2025

Oktoberfest Tulsa · 2025

Portait · 2026

Tulsa Makers Faire · 2025

Sports Coverage · 2025

Fab Lab Tulsa · 2026