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: [262, 92, 233, 54, 34, 46, 160, 145, 294, 26, 71, 70, 158, 169, 64, 299, 49, 12, 105, 37], k=15
Output:
160