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.

[55, 246, 14, 54, 103, 101, 213, 70, 183, 200, 250, 97, 221, 282, 19, 252, 228, 59, 13, 204], k=13
204