A 5-member team participated in a 3-day hackathon with the goals of creating a single view of IP and traceroute roots using ATLAS and looking glass data. They faced challenges including some looking glass sites not allowing scripting, lack of initial ATLAS account credit, time constraints, Python version differences, and JSON encoding issues. The outcomes included prototyping a UI using demo data to display traceroute and ping outputs on a GUI timeline. They successfully used the ATLAS API and presented demo screens of their work.