Georgian College integrates hands-on, real-world experiences with traditional classroom learning and digital innovation. From co-op positions to interactive and engaging Virtual Reality (VR) simulations, our students have the advantage of solving real-world problems, in a variety of ways, before they even graduate. Georgian’s Big Data Analytics program is known for its focus on experiential learning. Here, students collect, curate, manipulate, encode and store data sets, while also completing a Major Research Project (i.e., capstone project) with an industry partner. Two students, currently enrolled in Big Data Analytics, share their experiences.