Given the task definition, example input & output, solve the new input case.
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.
Example: [163, 290, 90, 51, 96, 86, 282, 265, 10, 85, 91, 201, 68, 126, 26, 228, 229, 236, 31, 71], k=14
Output: 201
201 is the 14th smallest element in the input list.

New input case for you: [272, 96, 64, 119, 236, 228, 129, 252, 297, 201, 144, 29, 20, 200, 162, 79, 285, 254, 189, 196], k=16
Output:
252