Rick Hansen Secondary School (Mississauga)

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Rick Hansen Secondary School
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Rick Hansen Secondary School (Mississauga)
1150 Dream Crest Road

Mississauga
,
Ontario
,
L5V 1N6

Canada
Coordinates 43°35′19″N79°41′01″W / 43.5886°N 79.6835°W / 43.5886; -79.6835
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School type Public, High school
Motto"Be The Best You Can Be"

"The End Is Just The Beginning"
- Rick Hansen

STORM:
(STEWARDSHIP
TECHNOLOGY
OPPORTUNITY
RESPONSIVENESS
METACURRICULUM)
Founded1999
School board Peel District School Board
SuperintendentGale Solomon-Henry
Area trusteeSue Lawton
Robert Crocker
Sue Benjamin
PrincipalOmari Rhoden
Staff163
Grades 9-12
Enrolment1673 (September 2009)
Language English
Colour(s)Maroon, Black, Gold, and Gray
    
MascotStormy/ Thunder
Team nameStorm
YearbookSchool In Motion
Website rickhansenss.peelschools.org

Rick Hansen Secondary School (RHSS), opened in 1999, is a public high school located in the southeast corner of Streetsville, a community in Mississauga, Ontario.

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Rick Hansen Secondary School is home to graduates from Fallingbrook Middle School, Fairwind Senior Public School, and Hazel McCallion Senior Public School.

In 2002, the school underwent expansion, during which a new wing on the west side of the school was built. This wing contributed additional 14 classrooms, 2 dance studios, and 2 art rooms for all of 2,000 students that attend RHSS.

Rick Hansen Secondary School is a sister school to Rick Hansen Secondary School in Abbotsford, British Columbia with which it shares school mascot named Stormy.

History

When the school opened on September 7, 1999, it was named East Credit Secondary School, and it was one of the first schools where the administrative staff helped create the blueprint of the school. It was the first public high school to open in Peel in ten years. Names of many Canadian icons were suggested for the school, but the Peel District School Board chose Rick Hansen Secondary School. Rick Hansen granted permission to the Peel District School Board to use his name for the school, saying that he was "delighted that your school will be part of my heritage and to carry the history of the Man in Motion tour by being a barrier-free school." [1] The school's architects implemented a wheelchair-friendly and barrier-free design by doing the following: [2] [3]

In the first school year, there were 655 students and 53 staff members in the school. At the time, the school only taught ninth and tenth graders. The first two floors of the school were occupied by the ninth and tenth graders and the third floor was used by elementary school students, as the neighboring Swinbourne Public School was still under construction at the time. [4]

In 2002, the school initiated the Rammed Earth project, which began as a vision of the school's arts department. The idea was to create three rammed earth sculptures in front of the school to bring art, culture, and community together. Students have worked together to blend 15 cubic yards of clay soil with cement, sand, and pigment. The students also hand tamped over a hundred layers of soil. They put a personal artifacts into the sculptures. This project was supported by the Ontario Arts Council, Toemar Garden Centre, Rona, and ABCO Construction Inc. [5] The sculptures were removed after the 2011–2012 school year began.

Donations

Every year, students from Rick Hansen Secondary find new ways of collecting money for the Rick Hansen Foundation. The school collects a small amount of money from late students entering the school after the morning announcements have been completed. [6] The school also has "Mad Minutes," where Peer Mentors run to every homeroom and collect as much loose change as possible from people's pockets in a short amount of time. The school also occasionally hosts many other activities, such as a coin drive, a school walk, pledge sheets, and a wheelchair basketball game at the school's gym. [7]

Use of technology

Rick Hansen was built as Peel's first technically oriented school where students have the ability to work and learn in a 21st-century technological environment. There were televisions in every room in the school until the 2016–2017 school year, when all the classroom televisions were removed, and the school possesses more than twelve computer labs. The school also has its own BBS television channel powered by Digmark, an electronic signage provider. This BBS system allows announcements to be broadcast throughout the school in a PowerPoint presentation format to the school's televisions, with extras such as small breaking news updates, weather, and stock prices. [8] There were also live morning broadcasts a couple times a month run by the broadcasting class. These broadcasts delivered morning announcements in a video format, and also showed the culture around the school by filming segments featuring students and staff but with the removal of the classroom televisions, the school has resorted to oral announcements. There is Wi-Fi throughout the school building, providing wireless internet access to students.

FIRST Robotics Team

Rick Hansen's two FIRST Robotics Competition teams, known as THEORY6 and The Big Bang, have taken part in regional and worldwide competitions. THEORY6 started in 2003. They have won numerous awards, such as the Regional Chairman's Award in 2005 and 2012, and the Regional Engineering Inspiration Award in 2013. At the 2013 FIRST Championship, they earned the title of world champions along with two other teams: Team 610 (Crescent School) and Team 1477 (Texas Torque).[ citation needed ]

Extracurricular activities

Rick Hansen Secondary School has athletic and non-athletic clubs and organizations including:

Association with Rick Hansen

The school is named after Rick Hansen, an athlete who won all-star awards in five sports when he was paralyzed at the age of 15 after being thrown from the back of a truck. He subsequently became an athlete and an activist for people with spinal cord injuries. Rick Hansen has made many special visits to the school, and his most recent visit was on April 5, 2011, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Man in Motion World Tour. In the event, Hansen announced that a relay will take place to retrace the Canadian segment of the original Man in Motion Tour. The celebration was attended by many notable people, such as Hazel McCallion, the mayor of Mississauga, and David Onley, the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario. [10] In total, 25 medal-bearers, including the school principal and a staff member, were chosen from the school. The Relay made its way through Rick Hansen on November 10, 2011. [11]

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References

  1. ↑ "School's History". Rick Hansen Secondary School. Retrieved 2011-05-02.
  2. ↑ "Rick Hansen on hand to help open new Peel board high school". Peel District School Board. 2000-05-16. Retrieved 2011-05-02.
  3. ↑ "New school features innovative barrier-free design". Peel District School Board. 1999-04-13. Retrieved 2011-05-02.
  4. ↑ Secondary School, Rick Hansen (2009). "RHSS History". The Rick Hansen Yearbook: School in Motion. Jotsens, Inc. pp. 8–9.
  5. ↑ "I in the STORM Garden Rammed Earth Wall Project". Lois Dellert. Retrieved 2012-01-14.
  6. ↑ Siddiqui, Alvina (2010-12-13). "Late students, big bucks". The Mississauga News. Retrieved 2011-05-07.
  7. ↑ "Time to get the wheels in motion again". The Mississauga News. 2007-05-19. Retrieved 2011-05-07.
  8. ↑ "About Us". Digmark, Inc. Retrieved 2012-01-14.
  9. ↑ "ROPSSAA Scores". www.ropssaascores.com. Archived from the original on 2008-03-09.
  10. ↑ Siddiqui, Alvina (2011-04-05). "Hansen tour hits 25 years". The Mississauga News. Retrieved 2011-05-02.
  11. ↑ "Peel board students welcome Rick Hansen Relay to Peel". Peel District School Board. 2011-11-04. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
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