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.

[48, 51, 19, 163, 242, 98, 100, 294, 28, 14, 126, 290, 57, 181, 78, 24, 174, 32, 213, 206], k=2
19