Lights, Camera, Impress: How One Game Dominated Summer

By: Hayden Bunce, Staff Writer Are you ready to dress to impress? Over the summer, the Roblox game Dress to Impress took every household by storm with its pop culture impact.  In November 2023, a game appeared with the name…

Why Our Brunch Needs to Be Longer

By: Matthew Du, Staff Writer Have you ever felt rushed while you are eating? Well, that is the case for Mills High School students as they are rushing to brunch everyday to try to get their food early so they…

Mills Jazz Band Prepares For The Upcoming Folsom Festival

By: Bianca Pando, Staff Writer Happening on January 27, 2024, the Mills High School Jazz band, directed by music teacher David Greorick, will perform in the Folsom Jazz Festival. Starting over 35 years ago, the Folsom Jazz Festival has continued…

Annual Millbrae Tree Lighting 2023

By: Bianca Pando, staff writer As winter approaches the town of Millbrae, the community gets ready to welcome the Christmas season. With the annual tree lighting event, on the first week of the month, December 2, 2023, all of Millbrae…

Long Weekends or Seasonal Breaks?

By: Bianca Pando, staff writer Would you as a student rather have many three day weekends or have a long break for a week? While many would think about these questions as having a simple answer, there are a few…

10 Books & Movies That Taught Us to Be Thankful

By: Bianca Pando, staff writer As Thanksgiving season arrives, so is the season to be thankful and remember which characters or movies have taught us about gratitude. What does it even mean to be thankful? Could it be writing cards…

Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease circulates Mills

By: Bianca Pando, staff writer During late September, an out-break circulates around Mills High School. History repeats itself with new-found illness and brings to light the new culture that encourages students  to go to school while feeling sick.  Coxsackievirus A16,…

Mills High School Boys & Girls Club Youth of the Year Honorees

By: Jordan Hasty, Staff Writer The Mid-Peninsula Boys and Girls Club is a non-profit youth development organization dedicated to inspire and enable young people all across the peninsula to achieve their full potential as caring, responsible, and productive citizens. Since…

Q & A: 2020 Millbrae City Council Candidates

The Thunderbolt Editor Team reached out to the 2020 Millbrae City Council Candidates to complete a voluntary online Questionnaire. All responses are copied directly from each candidate (unless otherwise stated). Answers may have been edited for minor spelling/grammatical errors or…

What Leadership and Yearbook are Doing Right Now

By: Jordan Hasty, Staff Writer In previous years, leadership and yearbook have aided in fostering a positive and motivating culture within Mills High School. Considering the highly interactive dynamic of each class, the switch to virtual learning was an abrupt…