 Other ways the school collects money is by having a Mad Minute, where Peer Mentors run to every homeroom and collect as much loose change as possible from people's pockets in a short length 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.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.