parental permission form

Please read through the FAQ, especially this part:

www.anthrocon.org/faq/minors

You may note the following:
"I have my permission form and it's all signed and notarized. Do I send it to you or do I bring it to the convention?

We recommend that you send a photocopy to us (make sure the notary seal is legible) with your registration form and bring along the original to the convention. This way you have something to back you up if the mail gets lost or your bags get misrouted on the way to the convention. "

Also note that you will still need somewhere to stay if you don't live in Pittsburgh
and plan to commute to AC each day.

"Can I get a hotel room on my own?

No. You must be 18 to get a hotel room. If you will be staying overnight, we strongly recommend against making rooming arrangements with anyone that you do not know personally (and by that we mean face-to-face, not someone you met over the internet); better still, it should be someone that your parents have met and whose company they approve. Anthrocon prides itself on providing a safe environment for its attendees, but we are nonetheless a large gathering of people from all parts of the world, and one should be appropriately cautious. "

Read the other stuff, too.
You will look silly if you end up asking a lot of questions and ALL of them can be
answered by cut-and-paste off the same FAQ page.

And don't forget to have fun!