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.
Q: [278, 263, 14, 101, 25, 97, 46, 288, 94, 13, 111, 144, 89, 159, 233, 32, 69, 216, 24, 65], k=13
A: 
111