Definition: 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: [73, 175, 152, 44, 121, 161, 196, 159, 119, 30, 145, 254, 252, 201, 126, 224, 278, 80, 102, 212], k=10
Output:
152