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: [261, 137, 226, 174, 152, 47, 248, 21, 250, 249, 211, 130, 135, 220, 110, 143, 259, 224, 106, 94], k=12
Output:
211