The Vocational Education Act of 1984 offers considerable opportunity for industrial arts. Because modern industrial arts (and agricultural arts) are listed as being eligible for funding from the Basic State Grant, Part B, most attention will be focused on this goal. Other Part B uses of funds with potential for industrial arts involvement include exemplary and innovative programs that stress new technologies, improvement and expansion of career counseling and guidance, programs related to curriculum development in vocational education, activities of vocational student organizations implemented as an integral part of secondary and postsecondary instructional programs, development of special courses and teaching strategies to teach fundamental principles of mathematics and science through practical application, and acquisition of high-technology and telecommunications equipment for vocational education programs. The new law also provides for additional research, conferences, and assessment of vocational education--areas in which industrial arts must be sure to become involved. Industrial arts practitioners must become intimately familiar with the definitions and regulations of the new law and should work toward developing modern industrial arts programs to assist students in making informed and meaningful occupational choices and to prepare them for entry into either advanced trade and industrial or technical education programs or into jobs in new and expanding technical areas. (MN)