CDK Global announced recently the success of its “Agile in a Day” mentoring event at its office in Portland Plaza.

In partnership with Portland’s ChickTech high school program, the aim of the program was to encourage young women to pursue careers in the engineering and technology fields.

“As a company providing innovations to the automotive retail industry, it’s part of our DNA to support interest in technology at a broader level,” said Steve Anenen, president and chief executive officer at CDK Global. “If we can help provide a forum to inspire young women to pursue engineering, everyone benefits.”

The high school-aged women took part in team huddle sessions, working with software engineers, to learn new techniques using HTML and AngularJS. Each team presented what they had learned at the end of the day.

Carla Clay, the program manager for ChickTech Portland, was proud of the partnership.

“ChickTech is super excited to partner with CDK because we both share the vision of changing the ratio of women in technology,” Clay said. “Today provided our girls with a solid foundation in Agile development methodologies, and it was a blast.”

Those interested in learning more about or contributing to the organization’s endeavors can do so on the ChickTech website.