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.

Ex Input:
[94, 116, 256, 81, 106, 150, 29, 112, 198, 151, 85, 96, 138, 65, 219, 210, 266, 97, 134, 64], k=12

Ex Output:
134

Ex Input:
[296, 139, 50, 190, 196, 299, 77, 247, 204, 145, 227, 90, 246, 259, 23, 193, 233, 75, 276, 10], k=20

Ex Output:
299

Ex Input:
[29, 283, 296, 133, 222, 90, 97, 208, 31, 229, 63, 228, 109, 245, 221, 225, 83, 91, 188, 61], k=20

Ex Output:
296