Sebastian Davis has been reaching for the stars his entire life.

The Coupeville High School senior may have been born and raised in a small town, but his mind has carried him far outside its limits, and will continue to do so going forward.

A two-sport athlete who excels in drama, Science Olympiad and National Honor Society, Davis has his sights set on big-reputation schools such as MIT, Cal Tech and Stanford.

Raised by a single mom, Amy Kennedy, he has the brains and single-minded drive to gain admittance to those schools, but not the financial backing.

So, as his final year of high school kicks off, he’s hard at work applying for scholarships and trying to raise money.

Whichever school ends up with him will get a free thinker, one whose thought process bounces all over the place, creating bold new paths.

His burning desire to learn, and more importantly, to do something inspired for the world with that knowledge, has always been there.

“When I went into physics class, I got the biggest grin on my face,” Davis said. “I like knowing how things work, the laws of the universe, why it does what it does … that fascinates me.”

Early on he wanted to be a linguist, then an inventor.

“I wanted to make things that work and don’t break, especially my toys,” he said. “I got tired of seeing my toys break, so I created some of my own.”

That included a working catapult, a water balloon-firing Iron Man suit, and, eventually, a trebuchet that was “a story and half tall. I know because I measured it against the two-story house at the building site where we were.”

Once up and going, Davis’s trebuchet “launched big, big rocks into the nearby lake, until we almost hit and sank a boat, and then I had to rethink that for a moment.”

That burning desire to create and inspire carried him to championship gold in school, where he and teammate Garrett Compton became the first CHS students ever to win a first-place medal at the state Science Olympiad.

In their event, the duo were given limited materials and told to build something, with a twist.

Working in different rooms, Davis would create the instructions, and then Compton would build with only that blueprint as a guide.

With no chance to use a ruler, the intrepid Wolf measured everything by using his pinkie — 1P went to the first knuckle, 3P was the whole finger — breaking down each segment of the creation.

That he would come up with a spur of the moment spark of genius like that came as little surprise, since he had already made a habit of it at previous competitions.

While competing in “mag lev,”  or magnetic elevated train, Davis and his teammates had to build a vehicle with an eye on making it carry as much weight as possible and yet have it still be able to cross the finish line in an allotted time.

As the clock ticked down, rapid adjustments had to be made, with the team’s final winning move coming via Davis folding up the event’s instruction sheet into a super-tight square and jamming it into the vehicle to provide the magnets the last bit of resistance they needed.

His ability to think quickly on his feet, even when tired, is a huge advantage, since Davis rarely stops moving.

A typical school day has him exiting his home at 8 a.m. and not getting back until close to 8 p.m., as he balances tennis as the No. 1 Wolf singles player, soccer where he was the team’s No. 2 scorer as a junior, and his many extracurricular activities.

Juggling sports and drama is not easy, especially when he has spent the past three years taking lead roles in virtually every production put on by the CHS theater troupe, but the lure of the limelight is too hard to resist.

Ask him his favorite performance and he can find something memorable in all of them, though “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” stands out.

“It was very hard, such a long play, tons and tons of lines and when it would swing to you, you’d have a paragraph to say,” Davis said with a laugh. “It all relied on how you flowed, instead of just dropping one-liners, which can be really fun.”

Which is not to say he doesn’t enjoy short, snappy patter.

“In ‘Accused of Comedy,’ Sebastian Wurzrainer and I were underground comedians put in jail and we spent the whole time cracking jokes, which was a lot of fun,” he said.

And he enjoys the chance to stretch himself.

“We did one early on, called, I think, ‘You Can’t Feed a Cello,’ that was my first time as a narrator,” Davis said. “But it was more than that. I was slipping in and out of narrating and acting out scenes as a character.

“I love having that one-on-one with the audience. I’ve been doing this so long, I’ve gotten comfortable with being around large crowds and engaging them,” he added. “You don’t get all nervous trying to remember lines; you’re just talking, a one-sided conversation, but you can feel them there and responding to you.”

Toss in his volunteer work —  Gifts from the Heart Food Bank, the Water Festival, Hearts and Hammers and the Sno-Isle libraries are just the tip of a very long list — and he would seem to have little free time.

What there is, he enjoys hopping on Steam for competitive online gaming such as “Dota 2,” hanging out with a close group of friends who call themselves the Bro Tank Clan & Exit Buddies and, occasionally, watching a bit of “House” or “The Walking Dead.”

Through it all, he bops along to a merry beat, whether attending concerts like Iron Maiden, Fall Out Boy and Imagine Dragons, or creating his own music.

“Music gets me through the day,” Davis said. “If my friends see me without my headphones on, they’re like, what did you do with Sebastian?”

An easy-going guy he only has one eternal foe.

“Time is my arch-nemesis; there’s never enough time for everything,” Davis said. “Time is always a constant, measures our existence and can never be defeated.”

Then he pauses, and the huge grin envelops his face and the entire room.

“Yet!”