I am perplexed on what awards to obtain or apply for as a homeschooler. I am not sure what kind of awards there even are beside essay contest and scholarships. Does anyone have more information?
What extracurriculars are you involved in? I listed awards from a church competition and also from soccer. They will largely have to come from essay contests and activities you do outside the home.
4H (you can earn ribbons and trips to your state fair, and they have lots of academic type categories). One of my kids played a club sport not offered at her school and competed. Scholastic has writing awards.
FWIW, my “academic honors” section is going to be pretty barren in my common app. I don’t think it’s anything to stress about, since as a homeschooler, there are significantly less competitive academic opportunities. (Most academic honors come from competing with people directly in your class or school, which obviously we don’t have.)
However, I think that there are still a few opportunities to win awards. I personally involved myself with a few different out-of-school competitive programming teams, and we regularly enter competitions and go against teams from other schools. Granted, it’s a lot harder to win awards when you’re competing against other schools, so these awards are more competitive all around. It isn’t easy, but it’s possible.
Earning awards in homeschool high school can appear to be problematic compared to the endless opportunities at a public or private school, but there are many if you take a second look.
I’m a high school junior who is homeschooled, and I’ve become a member of the National Society of High Scholars honor society (as well as becoming Ambassador), and have earned many valuable awards by participating in the 4-H program. There are endless amounts of awards in 4-H you may earn if you dedicate yourself to the program: county and state honors, perfect attendance, blue ribbons, Champion awards, Superior Exhibitor award and State Delegation, etc. If you still can, get involved in 4-H, the awards possible are endless in it and it’s also a great program.
Also, if you take the PSAT during junior year, you may able to eligible to become a National Merit Semi Finalist or Finalist, which will look amazing on any college app. 
These are just a few examples-but I’d recommend if youre looking for honors and awards as a homeschooler, to look into NSHSS which is friendly to homeschoolers, different extra curriculars such as 4-H, and researching online for award applications depending on your interests and talents also.
Hope this helps!
My academic honors section is also light. I decided not to be too concerned about it - I have plenty of leadership activities on my application. I’d personally prefer to leave it blank and make up for it in other areas than try to seek out awards just for the sake of getting awards.
Lots of stuff, but it probably depends on where you live. Here are some that my kids had:
AIME (national math competition)
Local Math Olympiad ranking
ARML (natl math competition)
Physics Olympiad semi-finalist
Physic Bowl national rank
National ranking in chess
Chess player of the month (local chess club)
NM finalist
Hispanic National Recognition Scholar (something like that)
MVP on baseball team
bowling scholarships
Certificate from senator for service project
Music awards (one of the top community orchestras; violin competition)
Robotics awards (community FTC team)