Digital forensics is a science that has grown from the bottom-up, as opposed to the top-down approach that many sciences experience. It started because some police officer somewhere had a computer in evidence and needed to figure out how to extract evidentiary material off of it. As a result, many of the tools still used in digital forensics are home-grown, built by the practitioners that have to get at the evidence in a case. Although there are a lot of researchers working to develop new technologies and tools to extract and analyze evidence on digital devices, there are still a lot of unanswered questions in the field. As a result, practitioners have to be taught to think on their feet, and to solve problems thus far unseen in real cases. Students are taught to develop these problem-solving skills through hands-on exercises and practice. This experiential learning approach to digital forensics education is absolutely essential to the future understanding of digital systems and how they work.