A Lincoln Park junior was ranked second place overall in Pennsylvania as part of the Global Math Challenge.

Jacob Shafran, a writing and publishing major, scored second among 33 state competitors. The son of Jerrold and Barbara Shafran of Bradford Woods, he hopes to attend UCLA after graduation to become a screenwriter.

The Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School Math Competition Club had 25 students who competed Oct. 26-28 in the Global Math Challenge for the third consecutive year.

As a group, the math club had eight individual scores over the national average with four individual scores over the worldwide average. A total of 2,722 students competed worldwide.

The Global Math Competition is a worldwide math competition where students compete online against students from all over the world, including China, Japan and the USA, according to math department chairperson Sarah Fucsko.

Hosted by Sony Global Education, the competition contains questions created by the Japan Prime Math Olympic Committee, which has been running premier math contests in its home country for more than 20 years