Instructions: In this task, you are given a list of integers and an integer k. You need to find the kth smallest element in the input list and return that.
Input: [144, 18, 223, 63, 151, 196, 244, 85, 107, 170, 239, 126, 292, 159, 122, 97, 129, 229, 207, 202], k=1
Output:
18