[PhoenixAzul]

The way it was done at my high school was that every student who was nominated for an award received an invite, and the "reveal" was done at the banquet. The banquet also served as an induction for the new NHS members and the giving out of chords for graduating members. Overall, those two groups tended to overlap, so almost everyone got something.

I don't recall anyone "sweeping" the awards, but several people got more than one.

When I was in college, however, there was one student who won all of these awards on campus, was generally the "darling" of everyone, had a ton of press coverage (then and now) etc. I overheard a faculty member say, "well, why did we all bother to get dressed up? you could have just had her do a press conference."

Whiiiich was pretty much how I felt at that point, because it was pretty overwhelming.