Just for reference, I refreshed the page 10 times and copied the spotlights here:
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FIRST cannot enforce Gracious Professionalism on the participants in this program, you will have to do it on your own.
Welcome to FIRST. You've never seen anything like this.
There was no real separation between who did what. "we" did it all and it was fun.
"You know, a robotics regional is the only place where you can walk in and see two people in chicken suits and not be confused."
I continue in FIRST because I'm not looked down upon for not knowing how to do something, but held up because I want to learn.
FIRST doesn't end after your last year within a team. It's never going to end.
10:56 p.m. EDT, July 20, 1969.
In most cases on FIRST robots, we have more material than in we need in some places and less than we need in others. That single phenomenon is the leading cause of robot failures.
Antimatter.. It will help us in the never ending quest to build the bot under the weight limit.
Is any robot ever actually done?
In that list, I see some pointless quotes. But I also see a lot of interesting and meaningful ones. I don't really mind if I have to put up with "10:56 p.m. EDT, July 20, 1969" (which I ashamedly had to look up what that was) in order to get "FIRST cannot enforce Gracious Professionalism on the participants in this program, you will have to do it on your own."
Another thing to note: look at the join dates of the people who want to keep the spotlights versus the people who don't care about them. It's generally the newer folk who like spotlights. To me this is solid evidence that one of the major reasons people like spotlights is because they provide a glimpse into the past.