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.

[111, 237, 259, 215, 30, 293, 167, 90, 276, 208, 35, 257, 181, 280, 234, 255, 193, 165, 107, 66], k=14
237

[98, 237, 179, 245, 268, 231, 97, 238, 174, 137, 153, 63, 168, 289, 50, 62, 57, 159, 81, 255], k=18
255

[155, 72, 71, 257, 17, 132, 266, 299, 290, 125, 38, 86, 37, 202, 185, 59, 70, 222, 145, 175], k=8
86